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

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    "Life of Madame de Staël" by Abel Stevens, (Ch. XXXIV), 1880.

  • Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.

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  • When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.

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    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 484, 1895.
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Madame de Stael

  • Born: April 22, 1766
  • Died: July 14, 1817
  • Occupation: Writer
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