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.

Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they...

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they...

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of...

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of...

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them...

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them...

We always get bored with those whom we bore.

We always get bored with those whom we bore.

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to...

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to...

We pardon to the extent that we love.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of...

Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of...

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of...

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of...

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more...

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more...

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to...

You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to...

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests,...

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests,...

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting....

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting....

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure...

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure...

There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline, too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in...

Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline, too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in...

Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with...

Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with...