Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Whether it's Shakespeare or Moliere, irony is a key component in the construction of theatre. A script would be pretty bad if it was devoid of irony.

Jiang Wen

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Andre Gide

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President Obama and his successors are dependent on the 100,000-plus people inside the American intelligence community - the people Edward Snowden betrayed.

Michael Hayden

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Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.

John Thorn

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I feel like the Internet needs to be disarmed in some way. There needs to be a philosophical undermining of the Internet. We take it too seriously and too literally. For a reference we go to Wikipedia, which is full of inaccuracies and misinformation. It's kind of beautiful - it's all the product of imagination; it's not reality at all.

Sufjan Stevens

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There should be no room in our society for any type of religious bigotry.

Lois Frankel

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The most important thing is to have something important to say and finding the means to say it.

Julia Leigh

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People are flooded with information every day, and normal guys everywhere try valiantly to stay up with all the technology. But they can't quite do it. I know how those guys feel.

Judge Reinhold

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When you're there and actually facing Natalie Dormer, it seems to go on for years.

Dean-Charles Chapman

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I love to do what I do. So, I do work long hours.

Brandon Sanderson

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I got to work alongside Alexandra Shipp, who plays Storm in 'X-Men: Apocalypse', so that was really cool for me.

Brianna Hildebrand

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The trick to techno, as a connoisseur, is that you got to do two things: keep your hands down and your mouth shut.

Winston Marshall

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