There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than… — 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… — 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
Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one's life. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive? — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline,… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's. [Fr., L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Life resembles Gobelin tapestry; you do not see the canvass on the right side; but when you turn it, the threads are… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths;… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes. — 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