We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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- 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.
- Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
- The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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