Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneOccupation is the best safeguard for women under all circumstances--mental or physical, or both. Cupid extinguishes his torch in the atmosphere of industry.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneThicken your religion a little. It is evaporating altogether by being subtilized.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne