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De l'Allemagne, tome 1 QUOTES

1 " Nothing is less applicable to life than a mathematical argument. A proposition expressed in numbers is definitely false or true. In all other relations, the truth is so mingled with the false that often only instinct can help us to decide among virtuous influences, sometimes equally as strong in one direction as in the other. "

― Germaine de Staël-Holstein , De l'Allemagne, tome 1

2 " Those who do not want to be judged by what they say may very well not deserve our interest in what they think. "

― Germaine de Staël-Holstein , De l'Allemagne, tome 1