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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes: Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
         

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.


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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 your immature, I'm out the door.



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I remember being intrigued by the idea of school-in-a-box, just-add-water-and-Sam.



Every piece of legislation which came to my desk in the coming years as the governor, I came down on the side of preserving the sanctity of life.

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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.



Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!.

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