Madame Stael
Madame Stael
checks moral necessity power progress scientific
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
advice boredom chose life suffering
One must chose in life between boredom and suffering
beginning fear love memory notion
Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
alike consists difference knowledge seeing wit
Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike