1,221 Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

  • Author 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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  • Author François de La Rochefoucauld
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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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