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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Birthday, Mind, Age

The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Age, Example, Complaining

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Time, Silly, Age
"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, 1655.

The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness of age.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Safety, Age, Youth

In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men, Age, Levity

Few know how to be old.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Age, Know How, Knows
"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 423, 1678.

Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Blood, Age, Taste

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Passion, Age, Youth

Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Beauty, People, Age

Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Age, Faces, Wheels

The older a fool is, the worse he is.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Age, Fool, Folly
"Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II". Book by Thomas Fuller, 1727.

When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Age, Vices, Desert

The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Real, Knowledge, Age

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 pleasures.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Birthday, Men, Age

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Wisdom, Age, Increase

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