I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.
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 SevigneWe are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne