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The time of Christians is the price with which they purchase eternity. (p. 121).

— Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert

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The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them. (p. 160).

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).

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