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Work Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
- It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
- If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
- A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state,…
- Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the…
- The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
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- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
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