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“Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with!”

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Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne was a French noblewoman and writer renowned for her extensive correspondence. Her letters offer valuable insights into the social and cultural life of 17th-century France. more

“Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it.”

Men May Matter Enough Whole Use Shows Feelings Certain Loses Opinion Enemy Contrary Affected Destroying Distrust Good Feeling Guarding

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“We like so much to talk of ourselves that we are never weary of those private interviews with a lover during the course of whole years, and for the same reason the devout like to spend much time with their confessor; it is the pleasure of talking of themselves, even though it be to talk ill.”

Years Reason Whole Courses Pleasure Talking Lovers Ill Interviews Weary Egotism Whole Year

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“Gloom and sadness are poison to us, and the origin of hysterics. You are right in thinking that this disease is in the imagination; you have defined it perfectly; it is vexation which causes it to spring up, and fear that supports it.”

Thinking Causes Imagination Support Sadness Disease Spring Defined Poison Gloom Vexation

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“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.”

World Walks Knowing Ignorance Blind Not Knowing

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“The world has no long injustices.”

World Long Injustice

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“Racine will pass away like the taste for coffee.”

Taste Coffee Popularity Passing Away

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“Thicken your religion a little. It is evaporating altogether by being subtilized.”

Littles Religion

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.”

Hands Time Pieces Cutting Clock Dislike Second Hand Small Pieces

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“In all nations truth is the most sublime, the most simple, the most difficult, and yet the most natural thing.”

Truth Nations Difficult Natural Simple Truth Is Sublime Natural Things

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

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