Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert: Doing

Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert was writer from France. Explore interesting quotes on doing.
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“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

“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

“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