Alfred de Musset Quote

It is a common vanity of the aged to believe that they have always been more exemplary than those who have come after them.


A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1886)


It is a common vanity of the aged to believe that they have always been more exemplary than those who have come after them.

It is a common vanity of the aged to believe that they have always been more exemplary than those who have come after them.

It is a common vanity of the aged to believe that they have always been more exemplary than those who have come after them.

It is a common vanity of the aged to believe that they have always been more exemplary than those who have come after them.