Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Old 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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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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Few know how to be old.
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The older a fool is, the worse he is.
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As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.
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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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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Born: September 15, 1613
- Died: March 17, 1680
- Occupation: Author