Great Throughts Treasury
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Madeleine Scuderi, also Madeleine de Scudéry, aka Sapho
French Novelist
"The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument."
"Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterward."
"A jealous man always finds more than he looks for."
"Sudden friendships rarely live to ripeness."
"Complaisance pleases all; prejudices none; adorns wit; renders humor agreeable; augments friendship; redoubles love; and united with justice and generosity, becomes the secret chain of the society of mankind."
"Women detest a jealous man whom they do not love, but it angers them when a man they do love is not jealous at times."