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Morality and freedom are the only bases of the happiness and dignity of the human race.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature—liberty that is, and what cannot be separated from liberty, a love of country.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
In the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Kindness and generosity... form the true morality of human actions.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Of all human sentiments, enthusiasm creates the most happiness; it is the only sentiment in fact which gives real happiness, the only sentiment which can help us to bear our human destiny in any situation in which we may find ourselves.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
I shall be told, I know, that Mathematics render the attention peculiarly close (appliquee); but they do not habituate to collect, to appreciate, to concentrate; the attention they require is, so to speak, in a straight line; the human mind acts in mathematics as a spring tending in one uniform direction.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël