Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
Age and Aging
Quotations by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth. Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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