Madame de Stael Quotes About Morality
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If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but where the manners are corrupt, we must consistently hold up to view an austere morality.
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The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.
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Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.
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Whatever efforts one may make, one must revert to the realization that religion is the real basis of morality; religion is the real and perceptible purpose within us, which alone, can turn aside our attention from things. ... The science of morality can no more teach human beings to be honest, in all the magnificence of this word, than geometry can teach one how to draw.
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Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.
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The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.
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Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.
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