Silvio Berlusconi (1936) Italian politician
On aging, as quoted in "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008)
2008
“Fortune, which had never forsaken him in his lifetime, favored the King of Sweden even in his death, with the rare privilege of falling in the fullness of his glory and an untarnished fame. By a timely death, his protecting genius rescued him from the inevitable fate of man - that of forgetting moderation in the intoxication of success, and justice in the plenitude of power.”
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