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“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

“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

Age , Time

“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

World , Solitude , Flying

“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

Love , Life , Men , World

“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

Friendship

“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

Pleasure , World , Despair