François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac (15 September 1613 – 17 March 1680) was a noted French author of maxims and memoirs.
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. Use this quote
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth. Use this quote
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age. Use this quote
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit. Use this quote
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us. Use this quote
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them. Use this quote
We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done. Use this quote
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. Use this quote
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness. Use this quote
Taste may change, but inclination never. Use this quote
