Reason bears disgrace, courage combats it, patience surmounts it.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneIt is day by day that we go forward; today we are as we were yesterday and tomorrow we shall be like ourselves today. So we go on without being aware of it, and this is one of the miracles of Providence that I so love.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneIt is not always sorrow that opens the fountains of the eyes.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneNothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne