Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Quote by Francois La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Advice Quotes

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare...

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare...

Old men like to give good advice in order to console themselves for not being...

Old men like to give good advice in order to console themselves for not being...

Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives...

Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives...

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment...

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment...

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when...

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when...

We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the...

We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the...

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as...

Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as...

Of all the violent passions the one that becomes a woman best is love.

Of all the violent passions the one that becomes a woman best is love.

Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy, in which the heart attaches itself successively to...

Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy, in which the heart attaches itself successively to...

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a...

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a...

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one which arouses the least pity...

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one which arouses the least pity...

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love

The only thing constant in life is change.

The only thing constant in life is change.

We often pass from love to ambition, but we hardly ever return from ambition to...

We often pass from love to ambition, but we hardly ever return from ambition to...

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky!

Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky!

Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do...

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do...