Madame de Stael Quotes - Page 3

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• nothing is so horrifying as the possibility of existing simply because we do not know how to die.

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  Possibility, Know How, Knows

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• The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.

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  Heart, Mind, Calm

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• When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

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  Aggravation, Age, Noble

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• Providence protects us in all the details of our lot.

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  Details, Providence, Protect

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• Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.

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  Kindness, Generosity, Morality

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• The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

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  Mistake, Voice, Political

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

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• Madame de Stael thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: "I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all."

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  Prayer, Pride, Secret

  "Sketch of the Life, Character, and Writings of Baroness de Stael-Holstein". Book by Albertine-Adrienne Necker de Saussure, 1820.

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• That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

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  Past, Precedent

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• Be happy, but be happy through piety.

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  Happiness, Piety

  "Corinne" (1807), Book XX, Chapter III, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 350-52, 1922.

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• The language of religion can alone suit every situation and every mode of feeling.

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  Feelings, Religion, Suits

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• The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

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  Life, Encouragement, Insightful

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• Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women.

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  Men, Men And Women, Episodes

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• [On Russia:] In every way, there is something gigantic about this people: ordinary dimensions have no applications whatever to it. I do not mean by this that true greatness and stability are never met with; but their boldness, their imaginativeness knows no bounds. With them everything is colossal rather than well-proportioned, audacious rather than well-considered, and if they do not attain their goals, it is because they exceed them.

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  Mean, Greatness, Russia

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• Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

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  Men, Selfishness, Weak

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• Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.

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  Ethics, Morality, Guides

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• I believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often harmful even to ourselves; but our abilities are permanent, and their demands never cease.

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  Happiness, Believe, Destiny

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• Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse.

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  Heartbreak, Soul, Unhappy

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• The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.

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  Women, Writing, Mere

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• Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.

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  Powerful, Men, Order

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• Every time a new nation, America or Russia for instance, advances toward civilization, the human race perfects itself; every time an inferior class emerges from enslavement and degradation, the human race again perfects itself.

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  Russia, Race, Civilization

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• I learn life from the poets.

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  Poet

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• Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.

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  And Love, Morality, Mediators

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• Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.

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  Mind, Firsts, Purity

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• How true it is that, sooner or later, the' most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune!

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  Yoke, Bows, Rebellious

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• [On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers.

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  Witty, Italian, May

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