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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael Quotes

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael quotes

Swiss Author April 22, 1766 – July 14, 1817

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael quote: "Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an..."
Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's. Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael quote: "Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of..."
Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end. Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael quote: "Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time,..."
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael quote: "We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand..."
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael quote: "We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us."
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Nothing is less applicable to life than a mathematical argument. A proposition expressed in numbers is definitely false or true. In all other relations, the truth is so mingled with the false that often only instinct can help us to decide among virtuous influences, sometimes equally as strong in one direction as in the other. Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael quote: "A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn."
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn. Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael quote: "When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline..."
When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael quote: "One must choose in life between boredom and suffering."
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering. Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael quote: "One must chose in life between boredom and suffering."
One must chose in life between boredom and suffering. Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Morality and freedom are as certainly the only bases of the happiness and dignity of the human race as the system of Galileo is the true theory of the celestial motions. Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael quote: "The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into..."
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action. Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
We live in an age when selfinterest alone seems to determine all of man’s acts—and what empathy, what emotion, what enthusiasm can ever grow out of self interest. It is pleasanter to dream of those times of dedication, sacrifice, and heroism that used to be, and that have left honorable traces upon the earth. Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Enlightening, teaching, and perfecting women together with men on the national and individual level: this must be the secret for the achievement of every reasonable goal, as well as the establishment of any permanent social or political relationships. Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
When we accustom ourselves to see animals suffer, we in time overcome the natural repugnancy of the sense of anguish, we become less accessible to pity even for our· fellow creatures, or at least we feel no longer those involuntary impressions. Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

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