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Madame de Stael - From the Aging category:
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Amusement category:
Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike. (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Architecture category:
Architecture is frozen music! (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Choices category:
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering. (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Contemplation category:
Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius. (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Courage category:
Courage of soul is necessary for the triumphs of genius. (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Earth category:
O Earth! all bathed with blood and years, yet never / Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers. (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Emotion category:
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable. (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Enthusiasm category:
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us. (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Fire category:
The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all the observations and all the efforts of philosophers ought to turn towards this Me, the centre and moving power of our sentiments and our ideas. (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Future category:
Divine wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast? (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Gender category:
The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man. (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Genius category:
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it. (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Goodness category:
Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them. (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Guilt category:
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)
Madame de Stael - From the Happiness category:
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action. (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Immortality category:
When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope - a native land of love; and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal. (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Innocence category:
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities. (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Language category:
Speech happens to not be his language. (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Life category:
Life often seems like a long shipwreck, of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love; the shores of existence are strewn with them. (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Love category:
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. (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Music category:
Music revives the recollections it would appease. (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Mysteries category:
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes. (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Nature category:
Whatever is natural admits of variety. (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Pets category:
The more I see of men the more I like dogs. (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Poetry category:
I learn life from the poets. (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Portraiture category:
Doubtless the human face is the grandest of all mysteries; yet fixed on canvas it can hardly tell of more than one sensation; no struggle, no successive contrasts accessible to dramatic art, can painting give, as neither time nor motion exists for her. (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Prayer category:
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)
Madame de Stael - From the Progress category:
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals. (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Religion category:
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn. (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Sadness category:
To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it. (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Taste category:
Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all. (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Thought category:
Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts. (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Thought category:
The most careful reasoning characters are very often the most easily abashed. (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Time category:
I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things. (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Travel category:
And all the bustle of departure - sometimes sad, sometimes intoxicating - just as fear or hope may be inspired by the new chances of coming destiny. (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Truth category:
Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty. (Madame de Stael)
Madame de Stael - From the Understanding category:
To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent. (Madame de Stael)
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