Germaine de Staël citáty
Germaine de Staël
Datum narození: 22. duben 1766
Datum úmrtí: 14. červenec 1817
Další jména: 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
„Sláva může být pro ženu jen zábleskem štěstí v jejím smutku.“
Zdroj: [Delorme, Philippe, 2009, Zavraždění králové, Levné knihy, 155, 978-80-7309-671-7]
„When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.“
— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, kniha Corinne
Bk. 6, ch. 3
Corinne (1807)
„Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.“
— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
The Influence of Literature upon Society (De la littérature considérée dans ses rapports avec les istitutions sociales, 1800) , Pt. 2, ch. 4
Kontext: 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 evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement.“
— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
The Influence of Literature upon Society (De la littérature considérée dans ses rapports avec les istitutions sociales, 1800) , Pt. 2, ch. 4
Kontext: 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.
„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.“
— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, kniha 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.“
— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
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, kniha 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, kniha 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.“
— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
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)
