Quotation 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.

Age

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As people grow older in love, they tend to focus more on the difficulties and problems rather than the joys and happiness they once felt. Similarly, with old age, a person experiences mostly suffering and loses the ability to enjoy life's pleasures.

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