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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
De l’Allemagne [Germany (1813)
Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.
Corinne (1807)
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Corinne (1807)
Religion is nothing, if it is not everything; if existence is not filled with it.
De l’Allemagne [Germany (1813)
Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?
Corinne (1807)
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
De l’Allemagne [Germany (1813)
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
Corinne (1807)
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
De l’Allemagne [Germany (1813)
The search for the truth is the noblest of occupations, and its publication a duty.
De l’Allemagne [Germany (1813)
The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.
Corinne (1807)
Love is the whole history of a woman's life; it is an episode in a man's.
The admiration of the beautiful always has relation to the Divinity.
De l’Allemagne [Germany (1813)
Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's.
Understanding everything makes one very indulgent.
Corinne (1807)
When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.
Corinne (1807)
Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the chief power of honest men.
To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that men can contract in this life.
Corinne (1807)
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end: we fancy that we have always possessed what we love, so difficult is it to imagine how we could have lived without it.
Corinne (1807)
O Earth! all bathed with blood and tears, yet never
Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.
Corinne (1807)
A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
Delphine (1802)