If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.

- Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

Ah! mon Dieu! how the mind shrinks by loving! it is true that the soul does not, but what can one do with a soul?

- Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

Oh, my dear, my tragedy is that you don't need to be loved as I know how to love.

- Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains.

- Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

Oh! how many times we die before death!

- Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

Oh! you shall see how well I know how to love! I can only love; I know only how to love! With moderate faculties, we can yet do much when we center t…

- Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

none but the unhappy are worthy of friends; if your soul had never suffered never could you have entered mine.

- Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love. I detest prudence, I even hate (suffer me …

- Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

I read what I feel, and not what I see.

- Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse