Madame de Lambert Quotes

Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles, the Marquise de Lambert, was a French moralist, salonniere, and philosopher of the early Enlightenment, whose Paris salon, held weekly for nearly thirty years in the Hotel de Nevers, was one of the most important centers of intellectual exchange in the early eighteenth century. Her Advice from a Mother to Her Daughter and Reflections on Women defended a serious moral and intellectual education for women in the courtly tradition of the seventeenth-century moralists, while her New Reflections on Women and Treatise on Friendship offered original contributions to early-modern French philosophy of friendship, virtue, and the moral life of the educated. The quotes below are attributed to Madame de Lambert, organized by topic.