Random Quote
Scholarship was one thing drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read let alone make notes on hundreds and hundreds of very very very boring books.
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
Quotes By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus...
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Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a...
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The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures they are safe...
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You can find women who have never had an affair but it is hard to find a...
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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One can find women who have never had one love affair but it is rare indeed...
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We give advice but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of...
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with yet...
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and...
Quotes About Loneliness
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But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave...
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I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And...
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I have two ideas for novels at the moment neither of them all that...
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Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people...
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have...
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I can support going in after Saddam Hussein but I want to make sure I don't...
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I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday let alone 10 years ago.