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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: french
Birth: September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680

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Vanity Go Virtue Company Keep Far

One of my most persistent, long-term fantasy wishes is not that I could fly or become invisible, but that I could make sound recording be invented decades or even centuries earlier than it was, so I could hear what people in the 1830s or 1750s actually sounded like.

People Fly Wishes Fantasy Become

We need to save the country.

Country Need Save

One in the third film, I'm looking forward to meeting one of the Dementors.

Looking Forward Looking Forward Film

I never had one of those glorious young bodies that make older men and women weep. So I don't tend to look back with nostalgia or yearn for what I've lost. Because it was never all that.

Women Men Look Back Nostalgia Young

In prose, leaps of logic can be made while the protagonist thinks about things and arrives at conclusions. Even with voiceover, there's no real way of having an inner voice without it taking over the entire story.

Voice Story Logic Way Real Over

I'm Irish, I'm from New York, and I definitely have issues.

New York New Irish Issues Definitely

The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.

Christian Lacroix

Yourself You Conversation Say More

You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.

Government You Taxes Pay Take

I never really make solid resolutions. I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year.

Brittany Murphy

Change Think Year Resolutions New

One of the most interesting reactions to come out of 1968 was in the first publication of the Trilateral Commission, which believed there was a 'crisis of democracy' from too much participation of the masses.

Democracy Interesting Too Much Crisis

The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.

Travel Mind Interesting Back Pretty

I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.

Forgotten Reviews Like Most Rave

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