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Quotes › Authors › J › Jean de la Bruyere › We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is
  • We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.

    Jean de la Bruyere: We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.
    Jean de la Bruyere
    "Les Caractères", XI, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 12-17, 1922.
    1803
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