Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis:
Seigneur de Saint-Évremond.
(1 April 1613 – 9 September 1703)
French soldier, hedonist, essayist and literary critic.
After 1661, he lived in exile, mainly in England, as a consequence of his attack on French policy at the time of the Peace of the Pyrenees (1659).
There is nothing that contributes more to the sweetness of life than friendship, but there is nothing that disturbs rest more than friends, if we are not discerning enough to choose them.
Friendship has knots that connect, not chains that bind.
