Marie de Rabutin-Chantal Quote

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things.


Letters of Madame de Sévigné to her Daughter and Her Friends (1811)


There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things.

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things.

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things.

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things.