Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles

“A Persian ambassador asked the wife of Leonidas, why they paid such honors to the women at Lacedemon? "It is," replied she, "because they have entirely the forming of the men." (p. 143).”

“Birth bestows less of honour than it demands; and to boast of ancestry is but to praise the merit of others. (p. 139).”

“A man that does not aim at raising to himself a great name, will never perform any great actions. And such as go carelessly on in the road of their professions suffer all the fatigues, without acquiring either the honour or recompense that naturally attend it. (p. 137).”