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.
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes – Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements..
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes – Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them..
Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes – Jealousy is bred in doubts..
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes – Old age is a tyrant..
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes – It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long..
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes – What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them..
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes – As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words..
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes – However rare true love may be..
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes – There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do..
There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld