Madame de Stael Quotes About Virtue

• Cuando destruimos un viejo prejuicio, necesitamos una nueva virtud.

  Madame de Stael

  Prejuicios, Necesidades, Virtud

  "Diccionario de palabras ardientes de escritores brillantes". Libro de Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 484, 1895.

• 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.

  Madame de Stael

  Religious, Sacrifice, Desire

  "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.

  Madame de Stael

  Beautiful, Sweet, Character

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