Germaine De Stael Quotes

#1. A wellborn soul is guided by only one principle in the world: always do good to others and never harm

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#2. Morality and freedom are as certainly the only bases of the happiness and dignity of the human race as the system of Galileo is the true theory of the celestial motions.

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#3. We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

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#4. I learn life from the poets.

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#5. Men do not change. They unmask themselves.

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#6. 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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#7. ... the reciprocal obligation from man to man holds the first rank; what regards ourselves, ought to be considered relatively to the influence that we may possess over the destiny of others...

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#8. Sow good services, sweet rememberances will grow from them.

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#9. Sensibility, imagination, reason, each is subservient to the other. Every one of these faculties would be nothing but a disease, but weakness, instead of strength, if it were not modified or completed by the collective character of our nature.

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#10. Enlightening, teaching, and perfecting women together with men on the national and individual level: this must be the secret for the achievement of every reasonable goal, as well as the establishment of any permanent social or political relationships.

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#11. Genius has no sex

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#12. Virtue . . . is nearly connected with the heart: I have called it Beneficence; not in the very limited sense that is generally given to the term, but to specify thereby all the actions that emanate from active goodness.

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