"Age is a tyrant who forbids at the……" — Francois La Rochefoucauld

"Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth."

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

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48 Quotes by Francois La Rochefoucauld

Francois La Rochefoucauld has 48 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less on their dispositions than on their fortunes
A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.
Love is like the ocean waves, it either has it high or low times and when it's high, it just…
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail…
Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or…
The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in the passion we…
Fertility of mind does not furnish us with so many resources on the same matter, as the lack of intelligence…
The love of glory, the fear of disgrace, the incentive to succeed, the desire to live in comfort, and the…
We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them
The pleasure of love is in loving, and we derive more happiness from the passion that we experience than from…
We often pass from love to ambition, but we hardly ever return from ambition to love.

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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