good and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneIf you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneReason bears disgrace, courage combats it, patience surmounts it.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneThere 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 SevigneNothing is so capable of overturning a good intention as to show a distrust of it; to be suspected for an enemy, is often sufficient to make a person become one.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneNothing 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.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne