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Quotes by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
- A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
- 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.
- Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
- As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
- As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
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