Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon Quotes

Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?

The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.

three-fourths of all marriages are unhappy.

Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty.

Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.

Woman softens her own troubles by generously solacing those of others.

Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Hope says to us constantly, "Go on, go on..."

It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.