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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."
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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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Personal Development
"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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Personal Development
"He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it."
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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."
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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."
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."
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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
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"Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves."
Government
"Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture."
Peace
"Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words."
Appreciation
"Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God."
God
"Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age."
Age
"One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best."
Quality
"Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home."
Home
"Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout."
Music
"It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself."
Art
"I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true."
Fact
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