Creative Quotations from Marie Anne du Deffand (1697-1780)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Marie Anne du Deffand
(1697-1780) born on

French intellectual.

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I do not know why Diogenes * went looking for a man: nothing could happen to him worse than finding one.

Do I believe in ghosts? No, but I'm afraid of them.

I love nothing and that is the true cause of my ennui.

Heed the still, small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.

Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	Letter to Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, 7 Jul 1763; in "Correspondance Inedite," 1859.
R:	In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
A:	Letter to Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, 7 Jul 1763; in "Correspondance Inedite," 1859.
N:	In "The Last Word - A Treasury of Women's Quotes," by Carolyn Warner, 1992.
K:	Quoted in "Lettres a Voltaire," ed. Joseph Trabucco, 1922