Madame de Staël's quotes (sethmessenger.fr - Some short news to get away from it all).

#33008
Intelligence lies in the ability to recognize the similarities among different things, and the differences between similar things.

Madame de Staël
(De l'Allemagne, 1813)

#33009
The search for the truth is the most noble of occupations, and its publication, a duty.

Madame de Staël
(De l'Allemagne, 1813)

#33010
The rules are just barriers to prevent children from falling.

Madame de Staël
(De l'Allemagne, 1813)

#33011
In affection, there are only beginnings.

Madame de Staël
(Source inconnue)

#33012
The merit of the Germans, is to fill in time; the talent of the French, is to forget.

Madame de Staël
(De l'Allemagne)

#33013
These are conditions that we excite to think.

Madame de Staël
(De la littérature)

#33014
The conquest is a chance which may depend on even more errors of the vanquished as genius of the winner.

Madame de Staël
(Source inconnue)

#33015
The first condition to write, it's a way of feeling bright and strong.

Madame de Staël
(Source inconnue)

#33016
There is, in the sense of regret, something soft and harmonious that try to make known to those who have still experienced the bitterness that.

Madame de Staël
(Corinne)

#33017
We don't know the infinite by pain.

Madame de Staël
(Source inconnue)

#33018
What is natural is varied.

Madame de Staël
(Corinne, ou l'Italie)

#33019
Once turned to ridicule, all passion is defeated apart from money and power.

Madame de Staël
(Corinne, ou l'Italie)

#33020
Expected point the sublime by degrees; the distance between the sublime and the just beautiful is infinite.

Madame de Staël
(Corinne, ou l'Italie)

#33021
The genius is essentially creative, it bears the imprint of person who possesses.

Madame de Staël
(Corinne, ou l'Italie)

#33022
Love is the emblem of eternity. It blurs all notion of time, erases all souvenir memory a start, cancels all fear of an end.

Madame de Staël
(Corinne, ou l'Italie)

#33023
Atheism exists only in the coldness, selfishness and meanness.

Madame de Staël
(Corinne, ou l'Italie)

#33024
A religious life is a test, and not a hymn.

Madame de Staël
(Corinne, ou l'Italie)

#33025
Innocence in engineering and equity in power are two noble qualities.

Madame de Staël
(Corinne, ou l'Italie)

#33026
Infinity does so much fear in our view it please our soul.

Madame de Staël
(Dix Années d'exil)

#33027
Monotony, in retirement, calms the soul; the monotony in the great world, tired mind.

Madame de Staël
(De l'Allemagne)

#33028
The feeling of infinity is the real attribute of the soul.

Madame de Staël
(De l'Allemagne)

#33029
Do not get angry at things: this is doing absolutely nothing.

Madame de Staël
(Source inconnue)

#33030
Of all men that I don't like, it is certainly my husband that I prefer.

Madame de Staël
(Source inconnue)

#33031
Self-esteem is what there is in the world of more inflexible.

Madame de Staël
(Corinne ou l'Italie)

#33032
It is wrong to fear the superiority of the mind and soul; She's very moral this superiority, because understand everything makes it very forgiving, and feel deeply inspired a great kindness.

Madame de Staël
(Corinne ou de l'Italie)

#33033
The destination of man on Earth is not happiness, but development.

Madame de Staël
(Source inconnue)

#33034
Traveling is one of the saddest pleasures in life.

Madame de Staël
(Corinne)

#33035
What man has made more big, he owes it to the painful feeling of the incomplete of its destiny.

Madame de Staël
(De la littérature)

#33036
It takes in our modern times, the European spirit.

Madame de Staël
(De l'Allemagne)

#33037
Why are the happy situations temporary? What are more fragile than others?

Madame de Staël
(Corinne ou l’Italie)

#33038
A woman can never communicate so quickly the perversity of his heart to another woman.

Madame de Staël
(Corinne)

#33039
The glory is the mourning shining happiness.

Madame de Staël
(Source inconnue)

#33040
Better still, to keep something sacred on Earth, that in marriage there a slave than two strong minds.

Madame de Staël
(De l'Allemagne)

#33041
Love is the story of the lives of women, it is an episode in the life of men.

Madame de Staël
(Source inconnue)

#33042
The pagans have divinised life and Christians have deified the dead.

Madame de Staël
(Corinne)

#33043
To understand is to forgive.

Madame de Staël
(Corinne)

#33044
New ideas like the elderly; they like to persuade himself that the world did that lose, rather than gain, since they have ceased to be young.

Madame de Staël
(Corinne ou l’Italie)

#33045
A man has to defy the opinion; a woman to submit.

Madame de Staël
(Delphine)

#33046
The man feels so passenger there always emotion in the presence of which is immutable.

Madame de Staël
(Source inconnue)

#33047
Love is a selfish two.

Madame de Staël
(Source inconnue)

#33048
The well-ordered severity begins at home.

Madame de Staël
(Source inconnue)

#33049
Stop to love if someone loves us.

Madame de Staël
(Source inconnue)

#33050
The genius is the common sense applied to new ideas.

Madame de Staël
(Source inconnue)

#33051
The pleasures of the spirit are made to calm the storms of the heart.

Madame de Staël
(Source inconnue)

#33052
There's no good in life and makes her forget.

Madame de Staël
(Source inconnue)

#33053
The personality of women is always two, while man has him even for goal.

Madame de Staël
(Source inconnue)

#33054
A nation's character when she is free.

Madame de Staël
(Source inconnue)

#33055
Poetry is the natural language of all religions.

Madame de Staël
(De l'Allemagne)

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