Germaine de Staël citáty
Germaine de Staël
Datum narození: 22. duben 1766
Datum úmrtí: 14. červenec 1817
Další jména:Madame de Staël,Anna Louise Germaine De Stael-Holstein,Anne-Louise-Germaine Staël,Anna Louise Germaine De Stael-Holsteinov,Анна-Луиза Жермена де Сталь
Germaine de Staël, obvykle nazývaná Madame de Staël byla francouzsko-švýcarská spisovatelka.
Citáty Germaine de Staël
„The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement.“
— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Context: 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
„Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.“
— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Context: 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
„Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.“
— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Quoted in A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1880) collected and translated by J. D. Finod, p. 138
