We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
Francois de La RochefoucauldPerhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
Francois de La RochefoucauldEveryone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy. Too often we consult ourselves as to what we should say, what we should leave unsaid. There are few permanent secrets, and the scruple against revealing them will not last forever.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld