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"You can only be twice someone's age once."
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Personal Development
"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."
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Personal Development
"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."
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Personal Development
"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."
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Personal Development
"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."
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Personal Development
"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."
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Personal Development
"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."
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Personal Development
"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."
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Personal Development
"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."
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Personal Development
"People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success that's the job of vision."
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"Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last."
Politics
"No nation has friends only interests."
Friendship
"The graveyards are full of indispensable men."
Man
"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant."
Politics
"Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life."
Life
"Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own."
Action
"In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?"
Friendship
"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
Politics
"Old age is a shipwreck."
Age
"Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese."
Nation
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