It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.
Francois de La RochefoucauldMany young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.
Francois de La RochefoucauldA 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 RochefoucauldThe generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld