Germaine De Stael
» Age and Aging » “When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.”
» Conscience » “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.”
» Desire » “The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.”
» Enthusiasm » “The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.”
» Genius » “Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.”
» Love » “Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.”
» Love » “We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.”
» Public Opinion » “A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.”
» Service » “Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.”
» Wit » “Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.”
