Il n'y a que deux temps dans la vie où la vérité se montre utilement à nous : dans la jeunesse , pour nous instruire ; dans la vieillesse , pour nous consoler. Dans le temps des passions la vérité nous abandonne.
Marquesa de Lambert in: Oeuvres complètes de Madame la Marquise de Lambert: suivies de ses lettres a plusieurs personnages célèbres - página 1 https://books.google.com.br/books?id=P6EGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1, Anne Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles marquise de Lambert - L. Collin, 1808, 408 páginas
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles frases e citações
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles: Frases em inglês
Fonte: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 148
Fonte: A Mother's Advice to Her Daughter, 1728, p. 200
Fonte: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 139
“The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.”
Fonte: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 160
“The time of Christians is the price with which they purchase eternity.”
Fonte: An Essay on Old Age, 1732, p. 121
“We are not indeed obliged always to speak what we think, but we must always think what we speak.”
Fonte: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 149
Fonte: A Mother's Advice to Her Daughter, 1728, p. 195
“Your tribunal is seated in your own breast, why then should you seek it elsewhere?”
Fonte: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 168
“Would you be esteemed? live with persons that are estimable.”
Fonte: An Essay on Friendship, 1732, p. 57
Fonte: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 153
Fonte: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 155
Fonte: An Essay on Friendship, 1732, pp. 54-55
Fonte: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 143
Fonte: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 137
Wiki translation based on that of Amelia Gere Mason, The Women of the French Salons; New York: The Century Co., 1891. p. 142.
New Reflections on Women, 1727
“Take care that your studies influence your manners.”
Fonte: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 165
Fonte: A Mother's Advice to Her Daughter, 1728, p. 172