"Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth."

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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed."

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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

"It is not well to make great changes in old age."

"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

"He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it."

"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."

"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."

"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."

"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

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"The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed."

"Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty."

"An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie."

"If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire."

"Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves."

"Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day."

"To understand someone, find out how he spends his money."

"The only peace is being out of earshot."

"Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?"

"Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future."