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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes: The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
         

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.


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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.



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All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.



Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.



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.

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.



When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.



There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.



Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.



Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.



Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.



There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.





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If a girl is stupid enough to love you after you broke her heart, I guarantee you, she is the one.



I see myself in the mold of Rin Tin Tin. It didn't go to his head either.

I see myself in the mold of Rin Tin Tin. It didn't go to his head either.



But the day that I die will be the day that I shut my mouth and put down my guitar.

But the day that I die will be the day that I shut my mouth and put down my guitar.



The goal of astrology is the alchemy of personality. It is to transform chaos into cosmos, collective human nature into individual and creative personality.

The goal of astrology is the alchemy of personality. It is to transform chaos into cosmos, collective human nature into individual and creative personality.



It's the people who love us or hate us - or both - who hold together the thousands of fragments we are made of.

It's the people who love us or hate us - or both - who hold together the thousands of fragments we are made of.



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The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.



Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other.

Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other.



Accept your feelings. Know your purpose. And do what needs to be done.

Accept your feelings. Know your purpose. And do what needs to be done.



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I don't ever look back. I look forward.




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