"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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"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.“
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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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"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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"There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade."
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