21 Quotations by Anne Germain De Stael
- 1. A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
- 2. Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
- 3. If a man had only his personal interest to guide his conduct, even if this guide were never to decei ...
- 4. Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.
- 5. Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning a ...
- 6. Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, ...
- 7. Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
- 8. One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
- 9. Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
- 10. Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
- 11. The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
- 12. The greatest happiness is to transform your feelings into actions.
- 13. The past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present was itself founde ...
- 14. The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies G ...
- 15. The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it ...
- 16. There has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirer ...
- 17. To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy ...
- 18. We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
- 19. When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of imm ...
- 20. Who understands much, forgives much.
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