Madame De Lafayette Quotes

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.

If you judge by appearances in this place,' said Mme de Chartres, 'you will often be deceived, because what appears to be the case hardly ever is.

There are those to whom we dare give no sign of the love that we feel for them, except in things that do not touch them directly; and, though one dares not show them that they are loved, one would at least like them to see that one does not wish to be loved by anyone else. One would hope them to know that there is no beauty, whatever her rank in society, whom one would not look upon with indifference, and that there is no crown that one would wish to purchase at the price of not seeing them again.

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is . . . the most indispensable of duties. -Marquis de Lafayette

Le trouble et l'embarras de Madame de Clèves était au-delà de tout ce que l''on peut s'imaginer, et si la mort se fût présentée pour la tirer de cet état, elle l'aurait trouvée agréable.

There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. —MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

When the government violates the people’s rights, insurrection is … the most indispensable of duties. —MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

Madame Blavatsky’s Theosophical Society of the era in Berlin, New York and India were in constant touch with Maria Orsic. Early writers of the Theosophical movement corresponded with her, and some Theosophists linguists offered her their linguistic expertise. It was a well-known fact in the metaphysical and spiritualism circles of the time, that one of Blavatsky’s associates who was an expert linguist in Hebrew, Phoenician and Sumerian took a leading part in the translation and explanation of the extraterrestrial messages Maria received in an unknown language, later to be revealed a  dead language of the Middle East which contained Ugaritic, Phoenician, Akkadian and Sumerian scripts; some passages were written  in cuneiform, and others in a script almost similar to the Byblos Script, and Ana’kh, a language the Anunnaki used to communicate with the early Mesopotamians and Phoenicians.

Le trouble et l''embarras de Madame de Clèves était au-delà de tout ce que l''on peut s'imaginer, et si la mort se fût présentée pour la tirer de cet état, elle l'aurait trouvée agréable.

J'ai la même affliction de sa mort que si elle m'était fidèle et je sens son infidélité comme si elle n'était point morte