Nothing 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 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 SevigneThicken your religion a little. It is evaporating altogether by being subtilized.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneThe desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many virtues.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne