Quote #11

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

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More from Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

  1. Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notions of time; effaces all memory of begining, all fear of an end.
  2. Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
  3. We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
  4. The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
  5. The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
  6. Men do not change; they unmask themselves.
  7. 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.
  8. The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

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