Religious people spend so much time with their confessors because they like to talk about themselves.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneNothing 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... we ought to be astonished at nothing; for what do we not meet with in our journey through life?
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneWe like so much to talk of ourselves that we are never weary of those private interviews with a lover during the course of whole years, and for the same reason the devout like to spend much time with their confessor; it is the pleasure of talking of themselves, even though it be to talk ill.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne