Madame de Stael Quotes - Page 7

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• We always cut our poetical theories to suit our talent.

  Madame de Stael

  Cutting, Poetry, Suits

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• It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the situation fate has placed them in, and that the most abstract form of democratic theory would be practicable among sages guided only by their reason. The only problem is to what degree it is possible to excite or to contain the passions without endangering public happiness.

  Madame de Stael

  Women, Passion, Fate

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• In women's destiny everything goes downhill except for thought, whose immortal nature it is to keep constantly rising.

  Madame de Stael

  Destiny, Rising, Immortal

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• There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune; it is difficult to feel less the dignity of the sex. The origin of all women may be called celestial, for their power is the offspring of the gifts of Nature; by yielding to pride and ambition they soon destroy the magic of their charms.

  Madame de Stael

  Sex, Ambition, Pride

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• Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

  Madame de Stael

  Creativity, Creative, Bears

  "Corinne, or Italy". Book by Madame de Stael, 1807.

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• The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

  Madame de Stael

  Greek, Definitions, Enthusiasm

  "Germany". Book by Madame de Stael, 1813.

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• The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.

  Madame de Stael

  Evil, Progress, Fables

  "The Influence of Literature upon Society". Book by Madame de Stael, 1800.

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• One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

  Madame de Stael

  Life, Boredom, Suffering

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• a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.

  Madame de Stael

  Perfect, Soul, Pieces

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• There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.

  Madame de Stael

  Reality, Earth, Power Of Love

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• inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.

  Madame de Stael

  Practice, Sublime, Inventiveness

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• The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.

  Madame de Stael

  Education, Thinking, Mind

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• there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.

  Madame de Stael

  Sleep, Twenties, Interest In Life

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• Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.

  Madame de Stael

  Irrevocable, Happens

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• O memory, thou bitter sweet,--both a joy and a scourge!

  Madame de Stael

  Sweet, Memories, Joy

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• Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.

  Madame de Stael

  Sunshine, Genius, Perfume

  "Corinne, or Italy". Book by Madame de Stael, 1807.

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• Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.

  Madame de Stael

  Genius, Contemplation, Form

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• The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

  Madame de Stael

  Sight, Architecture, Approach

  "Corinne, or Italy". Book by Madame de Stael, 1807.

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• If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but where the manners are corrupt, we must consistently hold up to view an austere morality.

  Madame de Stael

  Views, Imagination, Succeed

  "The Influence of Literature upon Society". Book by Madame de Stael, 1800.

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• If it were not for respect for human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time, whilst I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.

  Madame de Stael

  Men, League, Genius

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• in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to preserve it in eternal youth.

  Madame de Stael

  Memories, Past, Grace

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• You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.

  Madame de Stael

  Beautiful, Distance, Sublime

  "Corinne, or Italy". Book by Madame de Stael, 1807.

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• Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight.

  Madame de Stael

  Sight, Venice, Firsts

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• I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.

  Madame de Stael

  Prayer, Desire, Christianity

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• Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship; in France, it is an art for which imagination and soul are certainly very welcome, but which can also provide its own secret remedies to compensate you for the absence of either or both, if you so desire.

  Madame de Stael

  Country, Art, Imagination

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