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Famous Madame de Stael Quotes
“The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.”
“The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.”
“Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.”
“Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.”
“Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.”
“The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.”
“Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.”
“Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.”
“One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.”
“The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.”
“Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.”
“A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.”
“Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.”
“Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women.”
“The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.”