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Age Quotes by Francois La Rochefoucauld
- Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth.
- The veracity which increases with old age is not far from folly.
- In the old age of love as in life we still survive for the evils, though no longer for the pleasures.
- The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness of age.
- Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood, age retains its tastes by habit.
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