Youth Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Few know how to be old.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason

— François De La Rochefoucauld

As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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 Rochefoucauld

It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld