Madame de Stael Quotes
"Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them."
- Madame de Stael
(Related: Will)
"Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike."
- Madame de Stael
(Related: Difference, Lies, Wit)
"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
(Related: Desire, Man, Woman)
"We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us."
- Madame de Stael
"The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals."
- Madame de Stael
(Related: Progress, Mind)
"The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes."
- Madame de Stael
(Related: Connection, Existence, Faults, Mystery)
"Speech happens to not be his language."
- Madame de Stael
(Related: Language, Speech)
"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
(Related: Mistake, Conscience, Voice)
"To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent."
- Madame de Stael
(Related: Understanding)
"To understand everything makes one very indulgent."
- Madame de Stael
"Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty."
- Madame de Stael
(Related: Truth, Duty, Man, Occupation)
"The more I see of men the more I like dogs."
- Madame de Stael
(Related: Men, Dogs)
"Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities."
- Madame de Stael
(Related: Power, Genius, Candor, Innocence)
"Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened."
- Madame de Stael
(Related: Power, Progress, Man, Necessity)
"One must choose in life between boredom and suffering."
- Madame de Stael
(Related: Life, Boredom, Suffering)
"The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action."
- Madame de Stael
(Related: Happiness, Feelings, Action)
"A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it."
- Madame de Stael
(Related: Man, Opinion, Woman)
"A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn."
- Madame de Stael
(Related: Life, Religious, Struggle)
"In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable."
- Madame de Stael
(Related: Heart, Nothing)
"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
(Related: Love, Time, Fear, Beginning, End, Eternity, Memory, Sense, Symbol)
"Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's."
- Madame de Stael
(Related: History, Love, Life, Man, Woman)
"Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak."
- Madame de Stael
(Related: Men, Women, Selfishness)
"Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts."
- Madame de Stael
(Related: Art, Thoughts, Politeness)
"Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own."
- Madame de Stael
(Related: Strength, Meditation, Prayer, Self)
"Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it."
- Madame de Stael
(Related: Genius)