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Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles (1647 – 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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Take care that your studies influence your manners.
To live in perpetual employment, is to travel rapidly through life. Tranquility lengthens our existence.
Marguenat de Courcelles
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. (pp. 54-55)




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