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Man Quotes by Madame de Stael
- The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
- The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.
- 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…
- The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.
- A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
- Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.
- To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.
- Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?
- 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.
- Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
- Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
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