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Famous Madame de Stael Quotes
“Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth.”
“nothing is so horrifying as the possibility of existing simply because we do not know how to die.”
“There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.”
“[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.”
“Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving.”
“I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.”
“The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.”
“The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.”
“Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.”
“intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.”
“I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.”
“Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.”
“All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.”