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

A man that does not aim at raising to himself a great name, will never perform any great actions. And such as go carelessly on in the road of their professions suffer all the fatigues, without acquiring either the honour or recompense that naturally attend it.


A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726


A man that does not aim at raising to himself a great name, will never perform any great actions. And such as go carelessly on in the road of their...

A man that does not aim at raising to himself a great name, will never perform any great actions. And such as go carelessly on in the road of their...

A man that does not aim at raising to himself a great name, will never perform any great actions. And such as go carelessly on in the road of their...

A man that does not aim at raising to himself a great name, will never perform any great actions. And such as go carelessly on in the road of their...