Quotes by Madame de Stael

“We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.”

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

“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.”

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

“Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.”

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

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

“Enthusiasm signifies God in us.”

“Who understands much forgives much.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Who understands much forgives much.”

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

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

“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.”