Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Anne Louise Germaine de Stael (French Woman of Letters)

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein (1766–1817,) commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French woman of letters of Genevan origin whose lifetime overlapped with the events of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era. For many years she lived as an exile under the Reign of Terror and under Napoleonic persecution. Known as a witty and brilliant conversationalist, often dressed in flashy and revealing outfits, she participated actively in the political and intellectual life of her times. She was present at the first opening of the Estates General and at the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. Her intellectual collaboration with Benjamin Constant between 1795 and 1811 made them one of the most celebrated intellectual couples of their time. They discovered sooner than others the tyrannical character and designs of Napoleon. In 1814 one of her contemporaries observed that “there are three great powers struggling against Napoleon for the soul of Europe: England, Russia, and Madame de Staël”. Her works, both novels and travel literature, with emphasis on passion, individuality and oppositional politics made their mark on European Romanticism.

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Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love.—The shores of existence are strewn with them.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Disappointment, Life

The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Woman

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Wisdom

O, Memory, thou bitter-sweet—both a joy and a scourge.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Memory

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Innocence

Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, takes from attention its strength, from thought its originality, from feeling its earnestness.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

The more I see of men, the more I like dogs.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Men

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Difficulty, Existence

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Public opinion, Opinion

Enthusiasm signifies God in us.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Enthusiasm, Passion

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Eternity, Love, Marriage

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Truth

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Death

I do not believe in ghosts, but i am awfully afraid of them.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Feelings

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Genius

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

The more we know, the better we forgive.—Whoe’er feels deeply, feels for all that live.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Forgiveness

To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Prayer

The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all the observations and all the efforts of philosophers ought to turn towards this ME, the centre and moving power of our sentiments and our ideas.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Religion, Boredom

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies “God in us.”
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Enthusiasm

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Aging, Age

Love, which is only an episode in the life of a man, is the entire history of woman’s life.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Woman, Love

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Humor, Wit

Speech happens to not be his language
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Speech

When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Prejudice

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.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Prayer

I desire no other evidence of the truth of Christianity, than the Lord’s prayer.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Prayer

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Topics: Love

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