If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
[On Russia:] In every way, there is something gigantic about this people: ordinary dimensions have no applications whatever to it. I do… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
The most beautiful landscapes in the world, if they evoke no memory, if they bear no trace of a remarkable event, are… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay? — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship; in France, it is an art… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
If it were not for respect for human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
No nation has the right to bring about a revolution, even though such a change may be most urgently needed, if the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
The only equitable manner in my opinion, of judging the character of a man is to examine if there are personal calculations… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents? — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
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