Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
(1766-1817) born on Apr 22
French-Swiss "woman of letters, political propagandist".
She was a respected political propagandist and conversationalist who epitomized the European culture of her time.
Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
"Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike."
"That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it."
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
"When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality."