Madame De Stael Quotes

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

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

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

- Madame de Stael

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.

- Madame de Stael

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

- Madame de Stael

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

- Madame de Stael

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

- Madame de Stael

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

- Madame de Stael

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

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

- Madame de Stael

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

- Madame de Stael

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

- Madame de Stael

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

- Madame de Stael

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

- Madame de Stael

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

- Madame de Stael

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

- Madame de Stael

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

- Madame de Stael

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

- Madame de Stael

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

- Madame de Stael

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

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

- Madame de Stael

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

- Madame de Stael

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

- 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

The more I see of men the more I like dogs.

- Madame de Stael

Speech happens to not be his language.

- 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

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

- Madame de Stael