1,221 Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld
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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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Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.
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Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.
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We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Interest blinds some people, and enlightens others.
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Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.
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Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
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A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are eager to find aculprit, and loath to give ourselves the trouble of examining the crime.
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