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"Few people know how to be old."
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"I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings."
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"I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. And so you end in the 'warehouse of good intentions': 'Can't do it now.' 'Then put it on hold.' This is one's strategy for coping with old age, and with death-because one can't die with so many obligations in storage. Our clever species, so fertile and resourceful in denying its weaknesses."
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"They say the brain never ages it's a shame it can't teach the body that trick."
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"A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost: and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp."
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"Okay, you're older. Not much, really. And considering you love staying in shape and I refuse to run, we'll probably get all old and crippled at the same time. If not, then I'll learn to use a cane, and I'll get to beat on your ass for a change."
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"The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are."
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"The older I get the less I care what other people think of me. Therefore the older I get the more I enjoy life."
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"Every man over forty is responsible for his face."
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"If you don't know how to grow old, don't start learning how to grow old."
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"Aging is not our fault, but we certainly are guilty of feeling it."
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"We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears."
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"There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess."
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"The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others."
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"Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay."
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"In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances."
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"We say little, when vanity does not make us speak."
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"When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them."
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"He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks."
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"It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone."
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"If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss."
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