“It is sometimes best to slip over thoughts and not go to the bottom of them.” Quote by Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
“Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with!” FriendshipDearUnfortunate Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
“Reason bears disgrace, courage combats it, patience surmounts it.” ReasonBearsCombatDisgrace Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
“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.” MenMayMatterEnoughWholeUseShowsFeelingsCertainLosesOpinionEnemyContraryAffectedDestroyingDistrustGood FeelingGuarding 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.” YearsReasonWholeCoursesPleasureTalkingLoversIllInterviewsWearyEgotismWhole 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.” ThinkingCausesImaginationSupportSadnessDiseaseSpringDefinedPoisonGloomVexation 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.” 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
“Racine will pass away like the taste for coffee.” TasteCoffeePopularityPassing Away Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
“Thicken your religion a little. It is evaporating altogether by being subtilized.” LittlesReligion Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
“I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.” HandsTimePiecesCuttingClockDislikeSecond HandSmall Pieces Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne