Talk:Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert

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  • Never allow yourself any follies but those which will bring you great pleasure.
    • This phrase does not appear in Mme de Lambert’s collected works; it was quoted in a biography of the Comte de Plélo in 1876, and repeated by Friedrich Nietzsche in Beyond Good and Evil (1886).
      • E. J. B. Rathery. Le comte de Plélo, un Gentilhomme français au dix-huitième siècle ; Guérrier, littérateur et diplomate. Paris: Plon, 1876. p. 29.