Francois De La Rochefoucauld

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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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.
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.
Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.
You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

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