6 Quotes By Madame De Staël


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 on fear

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
Madame de Stael on happiness

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
Madame de Stael on history

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 on power

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 on strength

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
Madame De Staël on love