"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Age
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
More From Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- "Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty."
- "What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."
- "Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs."
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- "My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today."― Al Sharpton
- "Love has no age, no limit; and no death."― John Galsworthy
- "A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, “At my age, I don’t even buy green bananas.”"― Claude Pepper