Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles Short Quotes
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Take care that your studies influence your manners.
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert
Would you be esteemed? live with persons that are estimable.
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert
The time of Christians is the price with which they purchase eternity.
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert
Your tribunal is seated in your own breast, why then should you seek it elsewhere?
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert
The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert
To form a complete judgment of any one, we ought to have seen him acting the last part.
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert
We are not indeed obliged always to speak what we think, but we must always think what we speak.
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert
The owning of faults is no hard matter for persons that find a fund within themselves to mend them.
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert
It is not always our faults that ruin us, but the manner of our conduct after we have committed them.
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert
To live in perpetual employment, is to travel rapidly through life. Tranquility lengthens our existence.
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert
Birth bestows less of honour than it demands; and to boast of ancestry is but to praise the merit of others.
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert
We live with [our defects] as we do with the perfumes that we wear, we do not smell them ; they only incommode others.
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert
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.
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert
The world steals us from ourselves and solitude restores us. The world is composed of a herd, which are ever flying from themselves.
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert
With great employments and vulgar maxims, one is always restless and uneasy : it is not places, but reason, that removes anxiety from the mind.
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert
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.
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert
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."
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert
