The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.
Francois De La RochefoucauldRead
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
Interpretation
Old age restricts the joys of youth and imposes a rigid authority over one's ability to enjoy life.
This quote by FranΓ§ois de La Rochefoucauld reflects on the oppressive nature of aging, suggesting that as people grow older, they often lose the freedoms and pleasures associated with youth. It implies that old age comes with constraints that can stifle the vibrant experiences that one might have enjoyed earlier in life.
In practice
During a motivational speech about embracing life at any age.
The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.
Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect.
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.
If someone's liver doesn't work, we blame it on the genes; if someone's brain doesn't work properly, we blame the school. It's actually more humane to think of the condition as genetic. For instance, you don't want to say that someone is born unpleasant, but sometimes that might be true.
It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians. In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.
I seem to myself, as in a dream, Am accidental guest in this dreadful body.
The world doesn't need what women have, it needs what women are.
Southerners can never resist a losing cause.
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