The religious life is a struggle, and not a hymn.
Faith
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Quotes by Madame de Staël
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I desire no other evidence of the truth of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.
Faith
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.
Education
Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, takes from attention its strength, from thought its originality, from feeling its earnestness.
Courage
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Love
When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.
Wisdom
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults andour misfortunes.
Wisdom
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
Love
Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike.
Wisdom
One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
Life
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.
Courage
To understand everything makes one very indulgent.
Wisdom