"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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"However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.“
-Francois 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."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade."
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"Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time."
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