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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed."

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"Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed."

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"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."

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"Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds."

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"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane."

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"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do."

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"To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion."

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"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"

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"The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man."

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"If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves."
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"Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being."
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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."
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"Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences."
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"Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while."
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