Anne Louise Germaine de Staël - Ten Years' Exile

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Superstition attaches to this life, and religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, and religion to virtue; it is from the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious, and it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these same desires that we are religious.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël