One often passes from love to ambition, But one rarely returns from ambition to love.
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When the heart is still agitated by the remains of a passion, we are more ready to receive a new one than when we are entirely cured.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.
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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.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A shrewd man has to arrange his interests in order of importance and deal with them one by one but often our greed upsets this order and makes us run after so many things at once that through over-anxiety to obtain the trivial, we miss the most important.
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What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness unless he has the strength of character to be wicked. All other goodness is generally nothing but indolence or impotence of will.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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