Madame de Stael Quotes
Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is an episode in a man's.
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.
Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
O Earth! all bathed with blood and tears, yet never
Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.
Men do not change; they unmask themselves.
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
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.
I learn life from the poets.
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
One must chose in life between boredom and suffering.
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth.
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.
Life often seems like a long shipwreck, of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love; the shores of existence are strewn with them.
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end…