15 Quotes & Sayings By Madame De Stael

Madame de Stael was the pen name of the French aristocrat Marie-Élisabeth, Baroness de Steiger (1766-1817). She is known for her writings on friendship and her intimate relationship with the writer Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu. At the age of twenty-seven Madame de Stael published her first novel, Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters), which became an immediate success. The book inspired Byron's poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.

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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering. Madame De Stael
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Enthusiasm signifies God in us. Madame De Stael
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Who understands much forgives much. Madame De Stael
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Sow good services sweet remembrances will grow from them. Madame De Stael
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To pray together in whatever tongue or ritual is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life. Madame De Stael
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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
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The 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
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Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things which differ and the difference of things which are alike. Madame De Stael
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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. Madame De Stael
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In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable. Madame De Stael
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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
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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's. Madame De Stael
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities. Madame De Stael
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man its publication is a duty. Madame De Stael