Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles Quotes

Your tribunal is seated in your own breast, why then should you seek it elsewhere? (p. 168).

To form a complete judgment of any one, we ought to have seen him acting the last part. (p. 126).

We spoil the dispositions nature has given to women ; we neglect their education, fill their minds with nothing solid, and destine them solely to please, and to please only by their graces or their vices.

It is not always our faults that ruin us, but the manner of our conduct after we have committed them. (p. 200).

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. (p. 137).

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. (p. 204).

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. (p. 121).

Would you be esteemed? live with persons that are estimable. (p. 57).