It is thus that we walk through the world like the blind, — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Nothing is so capable of overturning a good intention as to show — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Winter is past, and we have a prospect of spring that is superior to spring itself. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Reason bears disgrace, courage combats it, patience surmounts it. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
… we ought to be astonished at nothing; for what do we not — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Thicken your religion a little. It is evaporating altogether by being subtilized. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
It is sometimes best to slip over thoughts and not go to the bottom of them. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Fortune is always on the side of the largest battalions. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
. . .the most astonishing, the most surprising, the most marvelous, the most miraculous. . . — 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
Friendships take work. Use disagreements as opportunity to come out better on — 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
Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
The days, and the months, and the years, pass so swiftly, that — 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
We must always live in hope; without that consolation there would be no living. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Occupation is the best safeguard for women under all circumstances–mental or physical, — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
[After being corrected by a grammarian for using the feminine pronoun instead — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
We like so much to talk of ourselves that we are never — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
It is not always sorrow that opens the fountains of the eyes … — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
I love you so passionately, that I hide a great part of — 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
Gloom and sadness are poison to us, and the origin of hysterics. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
