Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other.
There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality. - Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon
There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.
- Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others. - Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despair… - Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon
It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despair…
Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end? - Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon
Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?
Hope says to us constantly, "Go on, go on..." - Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon
Hope says to us constantly, "Go on, go on..."
Sin is not so sinful as hypocrisy. - Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon
Sin is not so sinful as hypocrisy.
Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty. - Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon
Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty.
three-fourths of all marriages are unhappy. - Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon
three-fourths of all marriages are unhappy.
Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other. - Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon
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