Anne Louise Germaine de Stael Quotes


"Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike."
- Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
(Related: Difference, Wit)

"That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it."
- Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
(Related: Past, Present)