Madame de Stael

“Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.”

“In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.”

“Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.”

“When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.”

“One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.”

“Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.”

“The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.”