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Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles , who on her marriage became Madame de Lambert, Marquise de Saint-Bris, and is generally known as the Marquise de Lambert, was a French writer and salonnière.

During the Régence, when the court of the Duchesse du Maine, at the Château de Sceaux, was amusing itself with frivolities, and when that of the Duc d’Orléans, at the Palais-Royal, was devoting itself to debauchery, the salon of the Marquise de Lambert passed for the temple of propriety and good taste, in a reaction against the cynicism and vulgarity of the time. For the cultivated people of the time, it was a true honor to be admitted to the celebrated "Tuesdays", where the dignity and high class of the "Great Century" were still in the air. Wikipedia  

✵ 1647 – 12. July 1733
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Famous Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert Quotes

“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

Source: An Essay on Old Age, 1732, p. 126

“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

Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Daughter, 1728, p. 200

“We fancy frequently that we have no grudge but against the men, when indeed our malignity is owing to their places : persons in great posts never yet enjoyed them with the good liking of the world, which only begins to do them justice when they are out of place.”

Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert

Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 148

“The principal merit which should be required in our friends, is virtue : It is that which assures us they are capable of friendship, and worthy of it : expect nothing from your connections, when they have not this foundation.”

Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert

Source: An Essay on Friendship, 1732, pp. 54-55

“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

Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 153

“The love of esteem is the life and soul of society; it unites us to one another : I want your approbation, you stand in need of mine. By forsaking the converse of men, we forsake the virtues necessary for society; for when one is alone, one is apt to grow negligent; the world forces you to have a guard over yourself.”

Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert

Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 155

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

“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

Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 170

“To live in perpetual employment, is to travel rapidly through life. Tranquility lengthens our existence.”

Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert

Source: An Essay on Old Age, 1732, p. 136

“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

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.”

Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert

Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 160

“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

Source: An Essay on Old Age, 1732, p. 121

“The time of Christians is the price with which they purchase eternity.”

Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert

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.”

Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert

Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 149

“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

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?”

Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert

Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 168

“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

Source: An Essay on Old Age, 1732, p. 136

“Would you be esteemed? live with persons that are estimable.”

Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert

Source: An Essay on Friendship, 1732, p. 57

“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

Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 143

“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.”

Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert

Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 137

“We spoil the dispositions nature has given to women; we neglect their education, fill their minds with nothing solid, and destine them solely to please, and to please only by their graces or their vices.”

Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert

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.”

Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert

Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 165

“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

Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Daughter, 1728, p. 172

“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

Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Daughter, 1728, p. 204

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