What did Madame de Stael mean by: I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave. - Madame de Stael Writer · France Copy
+ One must, in one’s life, make a choice between boredom and suffering. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Boredom, Choices, Suffering, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
+ Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Genius, Perfume, Sunshine, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
+ The most careful reasoning characters are very often the most easily abashed. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Careful, Character, Reasoning, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
+ The entire social order … is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man’s reputation. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
+ The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
+ Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Self, Sensitive, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
+ Kindness and generosity … form the true morality of human actions. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Generosity, Kindness, Morality, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
+ The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Different, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
I won’t bet $100 against house odds between now and the grave. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties. - William J. H. Boetcker Minister
My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man. - William Penn Founder of the Province of Pennsylvania · England
You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you’re staring into the grave. - Frank McCourt Teacher · Ireland
We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God. - Matthew Simpson Clergyman
If you can’t stop thinking about it, don’t stop working on it. - Michael Jordan Basketball player · USA
In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. - Livy Historian · Italy