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Suzanne Curchod Necker
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“The heart of a good man is the sanctuary of God in this world.”
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“Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.”
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“Fortune does not change men: it unmasks them.”
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“One can impose silence on sentiment, but one can not give it limits.”
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“When death consents to let us live a long time, it takes successively as hostages all those we have loved.”
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“The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed.”
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“How immense appear to us the sins that we have not committed.”
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“Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.”
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“The old age of women is bearable only on condition that they do not take up any room, do not make any noise, do not demand any service; on condition that they render all the service that is expected of them, and actually have no existence except for the good of others.”
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“For three days and nights I suffered the tortures of the damned, and Death was at my bedside, accompanied by his satellites in the shape of a species of men who are still more terrible than the Furies, and who have been invented for the sole purpose of horrifying modesty and scandalizing nature.”
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“The revolting details of childbirth had been hidden from me with such care that I was as surprised as I was horrified, and I cannot help thinking that the vows most women are made to take are very foolhardy. I doubt whether they would willingly go to the altar to swear that they will allow themselves to be broken on the wheel every nine months.”
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“Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.”
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“Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.”
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“High positions are like the summit of high, steep rocks: eagles and reptiles alone can reach them.”
Suzanne Curchod Necker, Swiss-born French writer, salon host
(1739 - 1794)
Note: she is Madame Staël’s mother.