Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes & Quotations

Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes

» As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

» Few people know how to be old.

» Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

» Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

» Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

» The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

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

» Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

» We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

» If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

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