The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to kn… - Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles

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The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them. (p. 160).

Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles

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Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles (1647 – 12 July 1733), better known as the Marquise de Lambert, was a writer with a particular interest in education and was the hostess of a famous salon.

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Alternative Names: Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles • Marquise de Lambert • Anne Theresa Lambert

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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. (p. 172).

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

Birth bestows less of honour than it demands; and to boast of ancestry is but to praise the merit of others. (p. 139).

The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them. (p. 160). - Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles

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