Quotes By Francois de La Rochefoucauld

• Work

  A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus...

• Women

  Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a...

• Women

  The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures they are safe...

• Women

  You can find women who have never had an affair but it is hard to find a...

• Women

  There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

• Women

  One can find women who have never had one love affair but it is rare indeed...

• Wisdom

  We give advice but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

• Truth

  Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of...

• Truth

  However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with yet...

• Time

  We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and...