If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror.


Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël (1958)

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël Quotes

If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its...

If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its...

If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its...

If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its...