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“Temperance adds zest to pleasure.”
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Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles
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“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.”
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Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles
Source : "A Mother's Advice to Her Daughter". Book by Anne Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, 1728.
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“The first rule for speaking well is to think well.”
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Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles
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“Politeness costs little and yields much.”
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Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles
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“We live with our defects as with the odors we carry about us: we do not perceive them, but they incommode those who approach us.”
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Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles
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“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.”
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Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles
Source : "A Mother's Advice to Her Son". Book by Anne Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, 1726.
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“We like to know the weakness of eminent persons; it consoles us for our inferiority.”
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Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles
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“Perfect friendship puts us under the necessity of being virtuous. As it can only be preserved among estimable persons, it forces us to resemble them. You find in friendship the surety of good counsel, the emulation of good example, sympathy in our griefs, succor in our distress.”
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Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles
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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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Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles
Source : "Essays on Friendship and Old-Age". Book by Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, translated by Eliza Ball Hayley, p. 121, 1780.
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“Would you be esteemed? Live with persons that are estimable.”
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Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles
Source : "Essays on Friendship and Old-Age". Book by Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, translated by Eliza Ball Hayley, p. 57, 1780.
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“Simplicity is oftenest an adroit pretence.”
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Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles
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“We can easily forgive want of means; but littleness, with means, is disgusting.”
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Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles
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“The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.”
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Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles
Source : "A Mother's Advice to Her Son". Book by Anne Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, 1726.
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