I am persuaded that the greater part of our complaints arise from want of exercise.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneIt is not always sorrow that opens the fountains of the eyes.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneIn all nations truth is the most sublime, the most simple, the most difficult, and yet the most natural thing.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it again.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne