Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles famous quotes

03-28-2025

Temperance adds zest to pleasure.
-- Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

#Zest #Add #Pleasure
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.
-- Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

#Giving #Promise #Despair
The first rule for speaking well is to think well.
-- Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

#Thinking #Speaking Well #Speech
Politeness costs little and yields much.
-- Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

#Yield #Cost #Littles
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.
-- Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

#Odor #Defects #Approach
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.
-- Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

#Men #Over You #Soul
We like to know the weakness of eminent persons; it consoles us for our inferiority.
-- Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

#Weakness #Inferiority #Persons
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.
-- Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

#Friendship #Grief #Perfect
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.
-- Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

#Age #Duty #Valuable
Would you be esteemed? Live with persons that are estimable.
-- Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

#Persons
Simplicity is oftenest an adroit pretence.
-- Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

#Simplicity #Pretence
We can easily forgive want of means; but littleness, with means, is disgusting.
-- Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

#Mean #Forgiving #Want
The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.
-- Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

#Moderation #Pleasure #Disposition

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