Rochefoucauld Quotes by Lytton Strachey

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• Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection…
• If this is dying, I don't think much of it.
• Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.
• The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background,…
• It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.
• Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of…
• The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible…
• Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to…
• The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.
• How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.
• Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole…
• English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value…

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