Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have... →
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who... →
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.