Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

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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We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them through a few courses in business school.

Matthew Stewart

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I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel.

Michael Chabon

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I'd rather have dinner with Don King than with Mark Furhman. But then, I'm American. I have no perspective.

Tucker Carlson

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A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people.

Mary Landrieu

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I don't like to rule by committee. I like sort of an autocratic way of dealing with things.

Judy Sheindlin

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Having excessive power in the hands of one country meant the fate of the world was too dependent on what happened in that one country.

Joseph Stiglitz

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Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words.

Jonathan Dimbleby

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I like the idea of separation of services. ISPs provide a pipe. Other vendors provide security. Other vendors provide email. When one party controls all the services, it's a 'synergy' for the company, but rarely for the consumer.

David Ulevitch

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Capitalism is, fundamentally, an economic system that promotes inequality.

Annalee Newitz

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Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

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I don't understand what's happening in 'Mr. Robot' all the time, and I'm really actually intimated for the second season. I'll have to rewatch the first season, I think.

Portia Doubleday

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It's one of those scenarios where no, I never imagined that I'd be directed in a love scene - not even a love scene because it's kind of a hard-core sex scene because it's kind of just purely played for this carnal venting.

Thomas Haden Church

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