Brewer's: Fool or Physician at Forty

Plutarch tells us that Tiberius said “Every man is a fool or his own physician at forty.” (Treatise on the Preservation of Health.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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