Madame de Stael Zitate auf Englisch

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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.

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

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.

Madame de Stael

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

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

Madame de Stael

Speech happens to not be his language.

Madame de Stael

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

Madame de Stael

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

Madame de Stael

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

Madame de Stael

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

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

Madame de Stael

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

Madame de Stael

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

Madame de Stael

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

Madame de Stael

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Madame de Stael

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

Madame de Stael

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

Madame de Stael

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

Madame de Stael

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

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Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

Madame de Stael

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

Madame de Stael

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

Madame de Stael

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

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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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In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

Madame de Stael