Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne famous quotes

03-30-2025

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.
-- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

#Danger #Dangerous
Fortune is always on the side of the largest battalions.
-- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

#Peace #War #Sides
It is the fine rain that soaks us through.
-- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

#Rain #Danger #Fine
There is no one who does not represent a danger to someone.
-- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

#Doe #Danger
Faith creates the virtues in which it believes.
-- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

#Faith #Believe #Virtue
We like no noise unless we make it ourselves.
-- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

#Noise
Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.
-- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

#Perfection #Faults
We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.
-- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

#People #Abuse #Motive
Occupation is the best safeguard for women under all circumstances--mental or physical, or both. Cupid extinguishes his torch in the atmosphere of industry.
-- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

#Atmosphere #Occupation #Torches
The heart never becomes wrinkled.
-- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

#Heart
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.
-- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

#Yesterday #Miracle #Today
I love you so passionately, that I hide a great part of my love, so as not to oppress you with it.
-- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

#Love #Dream #Love You
The heart has no wrinkles.
-- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

#Birthday #Heart #Wrinkles
There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.
-- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

#Night #Insomnia #Fifty
When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
-- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

#Reading #Library #Steps
I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.
-- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

#Witty #Memorable #Men
If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.
-- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

#Patience #Giving #Littles
The human heart will never wrinkle
-- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

#Heart #Wrinkles #Historical
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?
-- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

#Thinking #Feelings #Chocolate
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
-- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

#Pain #Real #Views
True friendship is never serene.
-- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

#Friendship #True Friend #True Friendship

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