I learn life from the poets. Autor: Madame de Staël Copy Quote More from Madame de Staël “We live in an age when selfinterest alone seems to determine all of man’s acts—…” “Ich glaube, daß die Umstände des Lebens, so zufällig wie sie sind, uns weniger …” “Virtue . . . is nearly connected with the heart: I have called it Beneficence; …” “Nothing is less applicable to life than a mathematical argument. A proposition …”