Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné

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Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné

Born: February 5, 1626

Died: April 17, 1696

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Biography: Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné was a French aristocrat, remembered for her letter-writing. Most of her letters, celebrated for their wit and vividness, were addressed to her daughter. She is revered in France as one of the great icons of French literature.

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné

“Ingratitude calls forth reproaches as gratitude brings renewed kindnesses.”

- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné

Source/Notes: Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
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“There is no person who is not dangerous for some one.”

- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné

Source/Notes: Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
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“Fortune is always on the side of the largest battalions.”

- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné

Source/Notes: Letters, 202. - Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
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“We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.”

- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné

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

- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné

Source/Notes: O Magazine, December 2003
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Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné

“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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“The heart never becomes wrinkled.”

- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné

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

- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné

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“It is sometimes best to slip over thoughts and not go to the bottom of them.”

- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné

Source/Notes: In French: "Il faut glisser sur les penseés et ne pas les approfondir"
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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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“... 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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“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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“... 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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“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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