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1647–1733 France
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles (1647 – 12 July 1733), better known as the Marquise de Lambert, was a writer with a particular interest in education and was the hostess of a famous salon.
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The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them. (p. 160).
The time of Christians is the price with which they purchase eternity. (p. 121).
With great employments and vulgar maxims, one is always restless and uneasy : it is not places, but reason, that removes anxiety from the mind. (p. 170).
To form a complete judgment of any one, we ought to have seen him acting the last part. (p. 126).
Would you be esteemed? live with persons that are estimable. (p. 57).
Shame is a secret pride; and pride is an error with regard to one's own worth, and an injustice with regard to what one has a mind to appear to others. (p. 204).
A Persian ambassador asked the wife of Leonidas, why they paid such honors to the women at Lacedemon? "It is," replied she, "because they have entirely the forming of the men." (p. 143).
We spoil the dispositions nature has given to women ; we neglect their education, fill their minds with nothing solid, and destine them solely to please, and to please only by their graces or their vices.
Your tribunal is seated in your own breast, why then should you seek it elsewhere? (p. 168).
The owning of faults is no hard matter for persons that find a fund within themselves to mend them. (p. 153).
Birth bestows less of honour than it demands; and to boast of ancestry is but to praise the merit of others. (p. 139).
One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it. (p. 121).
Take care that your studies influence your manners. (p. 165).
We are not indeed obliged always to speak what we think, but we must always think what we speak. (p. 149).
It is not always our faults that ruin us, but the manner of our conduct after we have committed them. (p. 200).
To live in perpetual employment, is to travel rapidly through life. Tranquility lengthens our existence. (p. 136).
We live with [our defects] as we do with the perfumes that we wear, we do not smell them ; they only incommode others. (p. 195).
The world steals us from ourselves and solitude restores us. The world is composed of a herd, which are ever flying from themselves. (p. 136).
The principal merit which should be required in our friends, is virtue : It is that which assures us they are capable of friendship, and worthy of it : expect nothing from your connections, when they have not this foundation. (pp. 54-55).
We fancy frequently that we have no grudge but against the men, when indeed our malignity is owing to their places : persons in great posts never yet enjoyed them with the good liking of the world, which only begins to do them justice when they are out of place. (p. 148).
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