I do not like to employ secretaries that have more wit than myself. I am afraid to make them write all my nonsense.
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 SevigneIt is thus that we walk through the world like the blind, not knowing whither we are going, regarding as bad what is good, regarding as good what is bad, and ever in entire ignorance.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne