There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets...

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets...

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues...

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues...

In love we often doubt what we most believe.

In love we often doubt what we most believe.

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,...

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...

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

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

A man's worth has its season, like fruit.

A man's worth has its season, like fruit.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives...

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives...

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that...

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that...

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of...

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of...

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost...

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost...

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to...

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to...

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to...

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to...

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors