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, and this state is constant.

Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a...

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a...

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil...

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil...

We always get bored with those whom we bore.

We always get bored with those whom we bore.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make...

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make...

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate...

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate...

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom...

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom...

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking...

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking...

Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.

Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests,...

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests,...

We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.

We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally...

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally...

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they...

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they...

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that...

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that...

Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part...

Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part...

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.