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François de La Rochefoucauld on Birthday

1613–1680 France

← All quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld

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Old age is a tyrant who forbids, upon pain of death, all the pleasures of youth.

Little is needed to make a wise man happy, but nothing can content a fool.

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

Réflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales (1655)

In friendship and in love, one is often happier because of what one does not know than what one knows.

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665)

If we judge love by the majority of its results, it resembles hatred more than friendship.

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665)

The vivacity which increases with old age is not so far removed from folly.

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665)

We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.

Few persons know how to be old.

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