Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Quotes
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Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with!
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We are always on the side of those who speak last.
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. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it again.
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the days, and the months, and the years, pass so swiftly, that I can no longer retain them. Time, in its flight, hurries me away, in spite of myself; in vain I endeavor to stop him, he drags me along: the thought of this alarms me.
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Were it not for the amusement of our books, we should be moped to death for want of occupation. It rains incessantly. ... we tickle ourselves in order to laugh; to so low an ebb are we reduced.
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war often breaks out when there is the most talk of peace.
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Death makes us all equal.
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Thicken your religion a little. It is evaporating altogether by being subtilized.
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good and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions.
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In all nations truth is the most sublime, the most simple, the most difficult, and yet the most natural thing.
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We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.
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Happiness, like misfortunes, never comes alone.
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Fortune is always on the side of the largest battalions.
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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.
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Long life will sometimes obscure the star of fame.
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True friendship is never serene.
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It is freezing fit to split a stone.
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We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.
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Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship. True friendship is never serene.
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. . .the most astonishing, the most surprising, the most marvelous, the most miraculous. . . the greatest, the least, the rarest, the most common, the most public, the most private till today. . . I cannot bring myself to tell you: guess what it is.
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It is a disgraceful thing to be ignorant.
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We must always live in hope; without that consolation there would be no living.
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[After being corrected by a grammarian for using the feminine pronoun instead of the pseudogeneric masculine:] As you please, but for my part, if I were to express myself so, I should fancy I had a beard.
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I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.
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Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.
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. . . 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 . . .
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The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many virtues.
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I love you so passionately, that I hide a great part of my love, so as not to oppress you with it.
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Reason bears disgrace, courage combats it, patience surmounts it.
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I pity those who have no taste for reading.
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