“ The youth of friendship is better than its old age. ”
François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665). copy citation
| Author | François de La Rochefoucauld |
|---|---|
| Source | Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims |
| Topic | friendship youth |
| Date | 1665 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | |
| Note | Translated by J. W. Willis Bund |
| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/9105/9105-h/9105-h.htm |
Context
“428.—We easily forgive in our friends those faults we do not perceive.
429.—Women who love, pardon more readily great indiscretions than little infidelities.
430.—In the old age of love as in life we still survive for the evils, though no longer for the pleasures.
["The youth of friendship is better than its old age." —Hazlitt's Characteristics, 229.]
431.—Nothing prevents our being unaffected so much as our desire to seem so.
432.—To praise good actions heartily is in some measure to take part in them.
433.—The most certain sign of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.”
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