Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Quotes

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• There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

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  Sleep, Night, Insomnia

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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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• I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.

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  Witty, Fear, Women

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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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  Thinking, Feelings, Chocolate

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• When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

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  Reading, Library, Steps

  "O" Magazine, December 2003.

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• We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

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  Done, Satisfaction, Satisfied

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• there are some people who never acknowledge themselves in the wrong; God help them!

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  People, Helping, Acknowledge

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• good and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions.

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  Evil, Different, Good And Evil

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• I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.

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  Time, Cutting, Hands

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• I love you so passionately, that I hide a great part of my love, so as not to oppress you with it.

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  Love, Dream, Love You

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• I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.

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  Sorrow, Delay, Letters

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• Religious people spend so much time with their confessors because they like to talk about themselves.

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  Religious, People, Confession

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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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  Desire, Way, Common

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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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  Pain, Real, Light

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• It is a disgraceful thing to be ignorant.

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  Ignorance, Ignorant, Disgraceful

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• The human heart will never wrinkle

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  Heart, Wrinkles, Historical

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• Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.

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  Book, Reading, Giving

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• We must always live in hope; without that consolation there would be no living.

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  Hope, Would Be, Consolation

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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, Feelings, Enemy

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• Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.

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  Perfection, Faults

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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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  Travel, Kindness, Lying

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• Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship.
  True friendship is never serene.

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  True Friend, Real, Tears

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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, Years, Months

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• ... we ought to be astonished at nothing; for what do we not meet with in our journey through life?

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  Journey, Journey Through Life, Ought

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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, Optimism

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