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01Undated

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

Madame de Stael / quote

02Undated

Enthusiasm signifies God in us.

Madame de Stael / quote

03Undated

Who understands much forgives much.

Madame de Stael / quote

04Undated

To pray together in whatever tongue or ritual is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.

Madame de Stael / quote

05Undated

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

Madame de Stael / quote

06Undated

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things which differ and the difference of things which are alike.

Madame de Stael / quote

07Undated

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Madame de Stael / quote

08Undated

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

Madame de Stael / quote

09Undated

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

Madame de Stael / quote

10Undated

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

Madame de Stael / quote