Quotes by Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne - Page 2

We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.
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Abuse
Motive
People
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If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.
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Patience
Giving
Littles
Optimism
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In all nations truth is the most sublime, the most simple, the most difficult, and yet the most natural thing.
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Truth
Simple
Sublime
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The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many virtues.
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Common
Desire
Way
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I do not like to employ secretaries that have more wit than myself. I am afraid to make them write all my nonsense.
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Nonsense
Wit
Writing
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There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things
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Light
Pain
Real
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Occupation is the best safeguard for women under all circumstances--mental or physical, or both. Cupid extinguishes his torch in the atmosphere of industry.
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Atmosphere
Occupation
Torches
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Nothing 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.
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Distrust
Enemy
Good Intentions
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If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?
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Chocolate
Feelings
Thinking
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. . . long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in . . .
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Journey
Long
Mind
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It 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.
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Ignorance
Knowing
World
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Were it not for the amusement of our books, we should be moped to death for want of occupation. It rains incessantly. ... we tickle ourselves in order to laugh; to so low an ebb are we reduced.
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Book
Order
Rain
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[After being corrected by a grammarian for using the feminine pronoun instead of the pseudogeneric masculine:] As you please, but for my part, if I were to express myself so, I should fancy I had a beard.
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Beard
Fancy
Feminine
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... truth ... carries authority with it; while falsehood and lies skulk under a load of words, without having the power of persuasion; the more they attempt to show themselves, the more they are entangled.
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Authority
Lying
Persuasion
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It 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.
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Goes On
Miracle
Yesterday
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the days, and the months, and the years, pass so swiftly, that I can no longer retain them. Time, in its flight, hurries me away, in spite of myself; in vain I endeavor to stop him, he drags me along: the thought of this alarms me.
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Time
Months
Years
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Gloom and sadness are poison to us, and the origin of hysterics. You are right in thinking that this disease is in the imagination; you have defined it perfectly; it is vexation which causes it to spring up, and fear that supports it.
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Sadness
Spring
Thinking
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. . . 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.
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Distance
Evil
Pain
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. . .the most astonishing, the most surprising, the most marvelous, the most miraculous. . . the greatest, the least, the rarest, the most common, the most public, the most private till today. . . I cannot bring myself to tell you: guess what it is.
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Common
Surprising
Today
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We 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.
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Interviews
Talking
Years
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long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in: but Providence in kindness to us causes us to forget it. It is much the same with lying-in women. Heaven permits this forgetfulness that the world may be peopled, and that folks may take journeys to Provence.
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Kindness
Travel
Lying
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... Providence conducts us with so much kindness through the different periods of our life, that we scarcely feel the change; our days glide gently and imperceptibly along, like the motion of the hour-hand, which we cannot discover. ... we advance gradually; we are the same to-day as yesterday, and to-morrow as to-day: thus we go on, without perceiving it, which is a miracle of the Providence I adore.
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Kindness
Hands
Yesterday
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Nothing 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.
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Men
Enemy
Feelings
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