Germaine de StaelThinkers

Exile is a tomb in which you can get mail.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Happiness is having a destiny in keeping with our abilities.

Life is a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory and love.

Love is the egoism of two.

Science is a domain where any progress makes moral progress an absolute necessity. For if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

The World is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.