"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."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.“
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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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"The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them."
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"There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good."
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"God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God."
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"Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good."
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