Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPerhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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