Madame de Stael

“That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.”

“Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.”

“One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.”

“The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.”

“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 than his own.”

“The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.”

“The more I see of men the more I like dogs.”

“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.”

“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.”

“A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.”

“The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.”

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

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

“Speech happens to not be his language.”

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

“When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.”

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

“In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.”

“Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.”

“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.”