Francois de La Rochefoucauld | work
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld | work
A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld | women
Women’s virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
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The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.
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You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.
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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld | wisdom
However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld | wisdom
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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