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

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

Men , World , Justice , Personality

“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

“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

Nature , Suffering