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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).

— 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).

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).

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