Madame Stael
Madame Stael
advice boredom chose life suffering
One must chose in life between boredom and suffering
checks moral necessity power progress scientific
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened
beginning fear love memory notion
Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
alike consists difference knowledge seeing wit
Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike