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One Quotes by Madame de Stael
- We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
- To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
- The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
- One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
- One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
- What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.
- The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.
- To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it.
- Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind.
- 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…
- We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love
- One must chose in life between boredom and suffering.
- To understand everything makes one very indulgent.
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