"Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples."
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
More From Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- "When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time."
- "Women’s virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation."
- "Nature seems at each man’s birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being."
More In Good
- "I swear by that old expression, ‘One monkey don’t stop no show!’ The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are."― Angie Stone
- "There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all – it’ll be ten o’clock and they’ll tell you it’s nine. You’re looking at the clock and you can’t even fathom why they’re lying. They just lie because that’s what they do."― John Cusack
- "The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight."― Theodore Roosevelt