What did Madame de Stael mean by: What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay? - Madame de Stael Writer · France Copy
+ We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Condolences, Hands, Sympathy, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
+ When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Enthusiasm, Undone, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
+ Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Love, Morality, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
+ The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Desire, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
+ Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Assured, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
+ nothing is so horrifying as the possibility of existing simply because we do not know how to die. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Possibility, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
+ The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Feelings, Happiness, Motivational, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
+ I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Madame de Stael, Graves, Port, Rowing, 0 - Madame de Stael Writer · France
Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death. - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
Never marry but for love; but see that thou lov’st what is lovely. - William Penn Founder of the Province of Pennsylvania · England
Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age. - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay. - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay. - Lord Chesterfield Politician · England
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body. - Lucretius Philosopher and poet · Italy
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays. - Lucretius Philosopher and poet · Italy
We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust. - Mick Farren Musician and writer · United Kingdom
