Madame de Stael
Madame de Stael
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein, commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French woman of letters of Swiss origin whose lifetime overlapped with the events of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era. She was one of Napoleon's principal opponents. Celebrated for her conversational eloquence, she participated actively in the political and intellectual life of her times. Her works, both critical and fictional, made their mark on the history of European Romanticism...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth22 April 1766
CountryFrance
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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.
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love
Courage of soul is necessary for the triumphs of genius.
When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.
Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight ...
New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.
nothing is so horrifying as the possibility of existing simply because we do not know how to die.
Exile: A tomb in which you can get mail.
The universe is in France; outside it, there is nothing.
[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.
intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.
Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.