Madame de La Fayette

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If one thinks that one is happy, that is enough to be happy.
- Madame de La Fayette
Collection: Life
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One may forgive infidelity, but one does not forget it.
- Madame de La Fayette
Collection: Forgiving
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You love writing; I hate it; and if I had a lover who expected a note from me every morning, I should certainly break with him. Let me beg you then not to measure my friendship by my writing.
- Madame de La Fayette
Collection: Morning
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One is very weak when one is in love.
- Madame de La Fayette
Collection: Weak
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We pardon infidelities, but we do not forget them.
- Madame de La Fayette
Collection: Infidelity
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I have left all my business and all my husbands; I have taken with me only fair weather and my children, which is as much as I want.
- Madame de La Fayette
Collection: Change
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Most mothers think that to keep young people away from love-making it is enough never to speak of it in their presence.
- Madame de La Fayette
Collection: Mother
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If I had a lover who wanted to hear from me every day, I would break with him.
- Madame de La Fayette
Collection: Lovers