Religious people spend so much time with their confessors because they like to talk about themselves.
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 SevigneIf we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevignethere are some people who never acknowledge themselves in the wrong; God help them!
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne