Germaine De Stael

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
Germaine De Stael

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
Germaine De Stael

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Germaine De Stael

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.
Germaine De Stael

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
Germaine De Stael

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
Germaine De Stael

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
Germaine De Stael

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
Germaine De Stael

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Germaine De Stael

Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's.
Germaine De Stael

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Germaine De Stael