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I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught all the world would be wise since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning understanding patience love openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Few things are impracticable in themselves and it is for want of application rather than of means that men fail to succeed.
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 Men
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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It...
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their...
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Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles but by producing them. They...
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If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them...
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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge...
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Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.
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Some old men continually praise the time of their youth. In fact you would...