"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.”

“The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.”

“The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.”

“Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.”

“Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life.”

“Few know how to be old.”

“Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?”

“When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, suddenly I meet your face.”

“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”