Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

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We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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