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Sin is not so sinful as hypocrisy.
— Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon
There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we please no one else, for our great self-love is often chastised by the scorn of others.
— Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
Study and research into truth often only serves to make us see by experience our natural ignorance.
— Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
The world has no long injustices.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
We need not regard what good a friend has done us, but only his desire to do us good.
— Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
The foolish acts of others ought to serve more as a lesson to us than an occasion to laugh at those who commit them.
— Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.
— Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon
When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
Matrimony is a very dangerous disorder; I had rather drink.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.
— Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand
Religious people spend so much time with their confessors because they like to talk about themselves.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
War often breaks out when there is the most talk of peace.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
Friendships take work. Use disagreements as opportunity to come out better on the other side
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
We like no noise unless we make it ourselves.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
There is no one who does not represent a danger to someone.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
Do I believe in ghosts? No, but I'm afraid of them.
— Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand
The distance doesn't matter; it is only the first step that is difficult.
— Mari De Vichy-Chamrond Marquise Du Deffand
The first step is the hardest.
— Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand
I am persuaded that the greater part of our complaints arise from want of exercise.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
We must always live in hope; without that consolation there would be no living.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
Ah, what a grudge I owe physicians! what mummery is their art!
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
Long life will sometimes obscure the star of fame.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
It is a singular characteristic of love that we cannot hide it where it exists, or pretend it where it does not exist.
— Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other.
— Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon
Impromptu thoughts are mental wild-flowers.
— Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand
It seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
Woman softens her own troubles by generously solacing those of others.
— Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon
Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die.
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
In all nations truth is the most sublime, the most simple, the most difficult, and yet the most natural thing.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
Three-fourths of all marriages are unhappy.
— Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon
God is not more incomprehensible than you; but if he is not more just, it is hardly worth while beIieving in him.
— Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand
It is a disgraceful thing to be ignorant ...
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
Hope says to us constantly, "Go on, go on ... "
— Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon
When people reproach us, they only increase their own failings even as they are disclaiming them.
— Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
I love nothing and that is the true cause of my ennui.
— Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand
Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire.
— Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand
To be too dissatisfied with ourselves is a weakness. To be too satisfied with ourselves is a stupidity.
— Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
There is nothing so lovely as to be beautiful. Beauty is a gift of God and we should cherish it as such.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
I love you so passionately, that I hide a great part of my love, so as not to oppress you with it.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
Everything seems insupportable to me. This may very well be because I am insupportable myself.
— Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand
There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
True friendship is never serene.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
We are so fond of hearing ourselves spoken of, that, be it good or ill, it is still pleasing.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
Happiness, like misfortunes, never comes alone.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
The heart has no wrinkles.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
There is always enough self-love hidden beneath the greatest devoutness to set limits on charity.
— Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
Death makes us all equal ...
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
It is freezing fit to split a stone.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
— Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon
Ah! I shall repeat it endlessly, the only misfortune is to be born!
— Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand
It is sometimes best to slip over thoughts and not go to the bottom of them.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?
— Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon
When we reckon without Providence, we must frequently reckon twice.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
Good and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
It is the fine rain that soaks us through.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
We must accustom ourselves to the follies of others and not be astonished at the foolishness that takes place in our presence.
— Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it.
— Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon
I pity those who have no taste for reading ...
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
Faith creates the virtues in which it believes.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty.
— Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon
There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
We think highly of men when we do not know the extent of their capabilities, for we always suppose that more exists when we only see half.
— Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
Faith is a devout belief in what one does not understand.
— Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand
Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
It is a very trying task for deceitful people, always to have to cover up their lack of sincerity and to repair the breaking of their word.
— Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.
— Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand
Social intercourse, even friendship among most people, is a merely a business arrangement that lasts only so long as there is need.
— Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
Fortune is always on the side of the largest battalions.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
There are some people who never acknowledge themselves in the wrong; God help them!
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with!
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
It is base to take advantage of our rank or greatness by making fun of those placed beneath us in life.
— Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
It is not always sorrow that opens the fountains of the eyes ...
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne