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Old Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.
- Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.
- Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.
- In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.
- Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
- Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
- Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
- 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…
- Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
- Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
- Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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