Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name. 也许变老就是你的大脑里有灯光照耀的房间，里面的人在行动。你认识的人，却不知道他们的名字。 -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世，罗切福科公爵
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes. 当一个男人恋爱时，他常常怀疑他最坚定的信念是什么。 -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世，罗切福科公爵
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures. 人老了，爱还在，就像人老了，生活在所有的痛苦之中，却死于所有的欢乐之中。 -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世，罗切福科公爵
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice. 人们最自由的一件事就是他们的建议。 -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世，罗切福科公爵
They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones. 一心扑在琐事上的人，往往做不成大事。 -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世，罗切福科公爵
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess. 有些罪行由于它们的辉煌、数量和过分而变得无辜甚至光荣。 -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世，罗切福科公爵
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune. 人的幸福和痛苦取决于运气，同样取决于脾气。 -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世，罗切福科公爵
The accent of the place in which one was born lingers in the mind and in the heart as it does in one's speech. 一个人出生的地方的口音就像说话一样，萦绕在他的脑海和心中。 -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世，罗切福科公爵
The passions are the only orators which always persuade. 激情是唯一能说服人的演说家。 -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世，罗切福科公爵
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones. 我们承认小错误只是为了让人觉得我们没有大错误。 -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世，罗切福科公爵