“To form a complete judgment of any one, we ought to have seen him acting the last part.”
Source: An Essay on Old Age, 1732, p. 126
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Famous Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert Quotes
Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Daughter, 1728, p. 200
Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 148
Source: An Essay on Friendship, 1732, pp. 54-55
Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 153
Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 155
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert Quotes
Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 170
Source: An Essay on Old Age, 1732, p. 136
Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 139
“The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.”
Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 160
“The time of Christians is the price with which they purchase eternity.”
Source: An Essay on Old Age, 1732, p. 121
“We are not indeed obliged always to speak what we think, but we must always think what we speak.”
Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 149
Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Daughter, 1728, p. 195
“Your tribunal is seated in your own breast, why then should you seek it elsewhere?”
Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 168
“Would you be esteemed? live with persons that are estimable.”
Source: An Essay on Friendship, 1732, p. 57
Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 143
Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 137
Wiki translation based on that of Amelia Gere Mason, The Women of the French Salons; New York: The Century Co., 1891. p. 142.
New Reflections on Women, 1727
“Take care that your studies influence your manners.”
Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 165
Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Daughter, 1728, p. 172
Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Daughter, 1728, p. 204
