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Madame de Stael: “Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.”

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Madame de Stael: “The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.”

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Madame de Stael: “Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the chief power of honest men.”

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Madame de Stael: “Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.”

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Madame de Stael: “Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?”

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Madame de Stael: “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.”

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Madame de Stael: “Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.”

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Madame de Stael: “Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.”

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Madame de Stael: “Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.”

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Madame de Stael: “In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.”

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Madame de Stael: “Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.”

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Madame de Stael: “Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.”

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Madame de Stael: “Whatever is natural admits of variety.”

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Madame de Stael: “The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.”

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Madame de Stael: “As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.”

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Madame de Stael: “Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.”

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Madame de Stael: “The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.”

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Madame de Stael: “Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.”

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Madame de Stael: “Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.”

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Madame de Stael: “The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals. (L'esprit humain fait progres toujours, mais c'est progres en spirale.)”

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Madame de Stael: “Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.”

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Madame de Stael: “The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.”

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Madame de Stael: “The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.”

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