"En vieillissant on devient plus fou, et plus sage.
"Growing older, we become both wiser and more foolish. - François de La Rochefoucauld
"En vieillissant on devient plus fou, et plus sage.
"Growing older, we become both wiser and more foolish.
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François de La Rochefoucauld
François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld, le Prince de Marcillac (September 15 1613 – March 17 1680) was a noted French author of maxims and memoirs, as well as an example of the accomplished 17th-century nobleman.
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François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac
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François, duc de La Rochefoucauld
Our state of mind is placid or restless not so much because of the really important happenings in our lives as because of convenient or annoying concatenations of trivial daily events
Grace is to the body what reason is to the mind.
Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them.
