Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Age
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.
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Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.
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Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune.
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In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.
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It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
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Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.
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When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
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The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.
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Few know how to be old.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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The older a fool is, the worse he is.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.
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The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
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The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness of age.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Born: September 15, 1613
- Died: March 17, 1680
- Occupation: Author