“It is thus that we walk through the world like the blind, not knowing whither we are going, regarding as bad what is good, regarding as good what is bad, and ever in entire ignorance.” WorldWalksKnowingIgnoranceBlindNot Knowing Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
“The world has no long injustices.” WorldLongInjustice Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
“long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in: but Providence in kindness to us causes us to forget it. It is much the same with lying-in women. Heaven permits this forgetfulness that the world may be peopled, and that folks may take journeys to Provence.” IfsWorldShouldMindMayLongEndsLyingHeavenCausesForgetKindnessJourneyStrangeTravelFolksPermitProvidenceForget ItForgetfulnessStrange ThingsLong JourneyProvenceEnd Of Journey Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
“. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.” ThinkingMenWorldHappensDiesWishCivility Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne