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• It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.

  Madame de Stael

  Sympathy, Art, Dear Ones

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• [Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It soils the hope of youth. Only shameless vice is above its reach.

  Madame de Stael

  Believe, Laughing, Feelings

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• The most beautiful landscapes in the world, if they evoke no memory, if they bear no trace of a remarkable event, are uninteresting compared to historic landscapes.

  Madame de Stael

  Beautiful, Memories, Events

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• The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the object she pursues, is always an obstacle or a reason in the story of her life.

  Madame de Stael

  Mind, Stories, Faces

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• What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.

  Madame de Stael

  Character, What Matters, Matter

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• Mystery such as is given of God is beyond the power of human penetration, yet not in opposition to it.

  Madame de Stael

  Mystery, Penetration, Given

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• To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.

  Madame de Stael

  Men, Brotherhood, Together

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• Love is the symbol of eternity.

  Madame de Stael

  Love, Love Is, Eternity

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• The universe is in France; outside it, there is nothing.

  Madame de Stael

  France, Universe

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• Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.

  Madame de Stael

  Love, Men, Flames

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• Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's.
  [Fr., L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes; c'est un episode dans celle des hommes.]

  Madame de Stael

  Love, Men, Episodes

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• New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.

  Madame de Stael

  Doctrine, World, Fancy

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• Never, never have I been loved as I love others!

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• Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.

  Madame de Stael

  Literature, Taste

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• Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the chief power of honest men.

  Madame de Stael

  Truth, Men, Liberty

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• Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious; it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious.

  Madame de Stael

  Religious, Sacrifice, Desire

  "Life of Madame de Staël" by Abel Stevens, (Ch. XXXIV), 1880.

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• Whatever efforts one may make, one must revert to the realization that religion is the real basis of morality; religion is the real and perceptible purpose within us, which alone, can turn aside our attention from things. ... The science of morality can no more teach human beings to be honest, in all the magnificence of this word, than geometry can teach one how to draw.

  Madame de Stael

  Real, Effort, Attention

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• Whatever is natural admits of variety.

  Madame de Stael

  Natural, Variety

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• The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.

  Madame de Stael

  Men, Eras, Obscure

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• The egotism of woman is always for two.

  Madame de Stael

  Two, Egotism

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

  Madame de Stael

  Cutting, Poetry, Suits

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• Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.

  Madame de Stael

  Self, Causes, Sensitive

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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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• 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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• [The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.

  Madame de Stael

  Europe, Energy, Rudeness

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