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Madeleine d'Arsant de Puisieux

  • “Jealousy is the homage that inferiority pays to merit.”

    • Madeleine d'Arsant de Puisieux,
    • in J. De Finod, ed., A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness ()

  • “One seeks new friends only when too well known by old ones.”

    • Madeleine d'Arsant de Puisieux,
    • in J. De Finod, ed., A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness ()

Madeleine d'Arsant de Puisieux, French writer, feminist

(1720 - 1798)