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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Birth bestows less of honour than it demands; and to boast of ancestry is but to praise the merit of others.

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The world steals us from ourselves and solitude restores us. The world is composed of a herd, which are ever flying from themselves.

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It is not always our faults that ruin us, but the manner of our conduct after we have committed them.

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