Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- 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.
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- The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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