"The intellect of the generality of women..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason.
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“Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.”
“Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.”
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“There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.”
“We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says.”
“The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.”