Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Death
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.
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Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.
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Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily.
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Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.
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We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is nothing else but fearing to look it in the face--so that this pretended bravery may very truly be said to do the same good office to their mind that the blindfold does to their eyes.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Born: September 15, 1613
- Died: March 17, 1680
- Occupation: Author