Quote #12
Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
- Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
- The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
- Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notions of time; effaces all memory of begining, all fear of an end.
- Men do not change; they unmask themselves.
- We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
- The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
- The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
- 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.