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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
— Madame De Stael
The egotism of woman is always for two.
— Madame De Stael
Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.
— Madame De Stael
Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.
— Madame De Stael
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
— Madame De Stael
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
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
— Madame De Stael
We always cut our poetical theories to suit our talent ...
— Madame De Stael
Who understands much, forgives much.
— Madame De Stael
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
— Madame De Stael
There is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.
— Madame De Stael
Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality.
— Louisa May Alcott
Be happy, but be happy through piety.
— Madame De Stael
Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women.
— Madame De Stael
When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
— Madame De Stael
Love is the symbol of eternity.
— Madame De Stael
It is difficult to grow old gracefully.
— Madame De Stael
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
I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.
— Madame De Stael
Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
— Madame De Stael
[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man.
— Madame De Stael
The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.
— Madame De Stael
To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
— Madame De Stael
Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?
— Madame De Stael
Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.
— Madame De Stael
Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind.
— Madame De Stael
Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.
— Madame De Stael
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
— Madame De Stael
Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.
— Madame De Stael
All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.
— Madame De Stael
Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
— Madame De Stael
Intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.
— Madame De Stael
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.
— Madame De Stael
A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.
— Madame De Stael
Nothing recalls the past like music ...
— Madame De Stael
O memory, thou bitter sweet,
both a joy and a scourge! — Madame De Stael
both a joy and a scourge! — Madame De Stael
It is not enough to forgive; one must forget.
— Madame De Stael
The universe is in France; outside it, there is nothing.
— Madame De Stael
Speech happens to not be his language.
— Madame De Stael
Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.
— Madame De Stael
The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
— Madame De Stael
Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
— Germaine De Stael
There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.
— Madame De Stael
Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all.
— Madame De Stael
Mystery such as is given of God is beyond the power of human penetration, yet not in opposition to it.
— Madame De Stael
Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness.
— Madame De Stael
Providence protects us in all the details of our lot.
— Madame De Stael
Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?
— Madame De Stael
Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.
— Madame De Stael
Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.
— Madame De Stael
Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.
— Madame De Stael
The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.
— Madame De Stael
Happy the land where the writers are sad, the merchants satisfied, the rich melancholic, and the populace content.
— Madame De Stael
In the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.
— Madame De Stael
Danger is like wine, it goes to your head.
— Madame De Stael
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
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
— Madame De Stael
Whatever is natural admits of variety.
— Madame De Stael
The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.
— Madame De Stael
Prayer is the life of the soul.
— Madame De Stael
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
— Madame De Stael
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love
— Madame De Stael
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
Nothing is so horrifying as the possibility of existing simply because we do not know how to die.
— Madame De Stael
Music revives the recollections it would appease.
— Madame De Stael
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
— Madame De Stael
I learn life from the poets.
— Germaine De Stael
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.
— Madame De Stael
When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.
— Madame De Stael
However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom.
— Madame De Stael
When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.
— Madame De Stael
A wellborn soul is guided by only one principle in the world: always do good to others and never harm
— Germaine De Stael
Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!
— Madame De Stael
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
Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
— Madame De Stael
Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.
— Madame De Stael
The language of religion can alone suit every situation and every mode of feeling.
— Madame De Stael
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
Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.
— Madame De Stael
O Earth! all bathed with blood and years, yet never / Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.
— Madame De Stael
Sow good services, sweet rememberances will grow from them.
— Germaine De Stael
Life resembles Gobelin tapestry; you do not see the canvass on the right side; but when you turn it, the threads are visible.
— Madame De Stael
We must cling only to drawing.
— Nicolas De Stael
When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.
— Madame De Stael
Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have.
— Madame De Stael
What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?
— Madame De Stael
Courage of soul is necessary for the triumphs of genius.
— Madame De Stael
How much past there is in a life, however brief it be.
— Madame De Stael
Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight ...
— Madame De Stael
[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.
— Madame De Stael
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
— Madame De Stael