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Quotes by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- 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.
- On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
- One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
- One forgives to the degree that one loves.
- One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
- Only the contemptible fear contempt.
- Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
- Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
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