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Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles Quotes

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.

"Essays on Friendship and Old-Age". Book by Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, translated by Eliza Ball Hayley, p. 121, 1780.

Would you be esteemed? Live with persons that are estimable.

"Essays on Friendship and Old-Age". Book by Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, translated by Eliza Ball Hayley, p. 57, 1780.

The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.

"A Mother's Advice to Her Son". Book by Anne Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, 1726.