Anne Louise Germaine de Stael, (1766-1817), French author Quotes
The past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present was itself founded on some past that went before it.
To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.
Kindness and generosity ... Form the true morality of human actions.
Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
The greatest happiness is to transform your feelings into actions.
If a man had only his personal interest to guide his conduct, even if this guide were never to deceive him, the source of all generous actions would dry up in his heart.
Who understands much, forgives much.
When a noble life has prepared old
age, it is not decline that it reveals,
but the first days of immortality.
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.