If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Passion often makes fools of the ablest, and lends ability to the most foolish.
We like to read others but we do not like to be read.
What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own.
Those who obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats.
We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with us.
Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth.
Old men like to give good advice in order to console themselves for not being any longer able to set bad examples.
Women’s hell is old age.
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
