Madame de Stael Quotes

• Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

  Madame de Stael

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Courtesy, Choice, Choosing

• Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things, which differ, and the difference between things, which are alike.

  Madame de Stael

  Topics in Humor

• The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Woman, Desire

• Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.

  Madame de Stael

  Topics in Democracy, Dissent

  Tags in Enemies, Difficulties

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

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  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Creativity

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

  Madame de Stael

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Women, Men

• Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.

  Madame de Stael

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Character, Duty, Enthusiasm, Conscience

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Conscience

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

  Madame de Stael

  Topics in Failure, Life

  Tags in Mystery

• Speech happens to not be his language.

  Madame de Stael

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Language

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Strength

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

  Madame de Stael

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Diversity

• Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.

  Madame de Stael

  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Will

• Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?

  Madame de Stael

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Character, Faith, Weakness

• Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

  Madame de Stael

  Topics in Love, Memory

  Tags in Ending, Time, Beginning

• To understand everything makes one very indulgent.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Understand

• The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action

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  Topics in Emotion

  Tags in Feeling

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

  Madame de Stael

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like

• Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.

  Madame de Stael

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Enthusiasm

• 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

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Ethics, School

Madame de Stael (35)

Birth:	22nd April, 1766
Death:	14th July, 1817
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Writer

About

Germaine de Stael was a French woman of letters of Swiss origin whose lifetime overlapped with the events of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era. She was one of Napoleon's principal opponents. Celebrated for her conversational eloquence, she participated actively in the political and intellectual life of her times. Her works, both critical and fictional, made their mark on the history of European Romanticism.

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