Madame de Stael

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#art #choosing #politeness #thoughts #your

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#man #woman

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. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#clear #conscience #delicate #easy #impossible

I learn life from the poets. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#learn #life #art

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#him #increased #makes #man #moral

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#life #life is a #religious #religious life #struggle

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. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#greater #his #meditation #more #own

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

— Madame de Stael

#history #life #love #love is #man

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#destroying #end #eternity #fear #love

The more I see of men the more I like dogs. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#i #i see #like #men #more