热尔梅娜·德·斯塔尔

Quotes

• “On cesse de s'aimer si quelqu'un ne nous aime.”
• “L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes; c'est un épisode dans celle des hommes.”
• “The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.”
• “If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but where the manners are corrupt, we must consistently hold up to view an austere morality.”
• “One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.”
• “Un homme doit savoir braver l'opinion; une femme s'y soumettre.”

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