The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many virtues. -Marie de Sevigne

 

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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This quote is just one of 9 total Marie de Sevigne quotes in our collection. Marie de Sevigne is known for saying 'The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many virtues.' as well as some of the following quotes.

Fortune is always on the side of the big battalions.

Marie de Sevigne

. . . 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 . . .

Marie de Sevigne

There is no person who is not dangerous for someone.

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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.

Marie de Sevigne

The heart has no wrinkles.

Marie de Sevigne