BMJ  2003;327:1326 (6 December), doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1326

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A tyrant

Old age is a tyrant who forbids, upon pain of death, all the pleasures of youth.

Duc François de La Rochefoucauld (1613-80), Maximes, 1665

Fred Charatan, retired geriatric physician

Florida


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