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. . .the most astonishing, the most surprising, the most marvelous, the most miraculous. . . the greatest, the least, the rarest, the most common, the most public, the most private till today. . . I cannot bring myself to tell you: guess what it is.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne. . . 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 . . .
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneI know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne