Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
From Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
Usually we praise only to be praised.
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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