“When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.”
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël книга Corinne
Bk. 6, ch. 3
Corinne (1807)
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“Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.”
The Influence of Literature upon Society (De la littérature considérée dans ses rapports avec les istitutions sociales, 1800) , Pt. 2, ch. 4
Контексте: 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.
The Influence of Literature upon Society (De la littérature considérée dans ses rapports avec les istitutions sociales, 1800) , Pt. 2, ch. 4
Контексте: 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.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël книга Corinne
Bk. 8, ch. 2, as translated by Isabel Hill (1833)
Variant translation: It is certainly through love that eternity can be understood; it confuses all thoughts about time; it destroys the ideas of beginning and end; one thinks one has always been in love with the person one loves, so difficult is it to conceive that one could live without him.
As translated by Sylvia Raphael (1998)
Corinne (1807)
“Men do not change; they unmask themselves.”
Quoted in Invasion of the Party Snatchers : How the Holy-Rollers and the Neo-Cons Destroyed the GOP (2008) by Victor Gold
“Be happy, but be so by piety.”
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël книга Corinne
Bk. 20, ch. 3
Corinne (1807)
“A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.”
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël книга Delphine
Un homme doit savoir braver l'opinion; une femme s'y soumettre.
Delphine (1802), epigraph
The epigraph is taken from the writings of de Staël's mother, Suzanne Necker.
“The search for the truth is the noblest of occupations, and its publication a duty.”
La recherche de la vérité est la plus noble des occupations, et sa publication un devoir.
Pt. 4, ch. 2
De l’Allemagne [Germany] (1813)
Pt. 4, ch. 10
De l’Allemagne [Germany] (1813)
“Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.”
Quoted in A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1880) collected and translated by J. D. Finod, p. 138
“When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.”
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël книга Corinne
Bk. 4, ch. 3
Corinne (1807)
“In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.”
Letter to Juliette Récamier (October 5, 1810), quoted in J. Christopher Herold, Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël (New York: Grove Press, 1958), p. 401
“Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness.”
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël книга Corinne
Bk. 10, ch. 5
Corinne (1807)
“Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.”
Pt. 2, ch. 8
De l’Allemagne [Germany] (1813)
“Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.”
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël книга Corinne
Bk. 10, ch. 5
Corinne (1807)
Добавить примечание: (fr) La voix de la conscience est si délicate, qu'il est facile d'étouffer; mais elle est si pure, qu'il est impossible de la méconnaître.
Источник: De l’Allemagne [Germany] (1813), Pt. 3, ch. 13
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël книга Delphine
Delphine (1802), Preface
“Life often seems like a long shipwreck, of which the débris are friendship, fame, and love.”
Reflections on Suicide (Réflexions sur le suicide, 1813), Section 1