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Famous Madame de Stael Quotes
“The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.”
“there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.”
“The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.”
“women have no existence except in love; the history of their life begins and ends with love!”
“What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?”
“I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.”
“One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one's life.”
“The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.”
“Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have.”
“Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time.”
“Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.”
“Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.”
“Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.”
“We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love”
“In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.”
“The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.”
“The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.”
“I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.”