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.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
man power
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.
vices birth virtues man nature
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
man death
man age
A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.
man
A man's worth has its season, like fruit.
worth man
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
example man
He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.
chance man
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
silence man
The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
man mind
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