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: but Providence in kindness to us causes us to forget it. It is much the same with lying-in women. Heaven permits this forgetfulness that the world may be peopled, and that folks may take journeys to Provence.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneIt is sometimes best to slip over thoughts and not go to the bottom of them.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneWhy do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne