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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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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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"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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"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind."
Death
"My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool."
Love
"Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction."
Life
"Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions."
Politics
"Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes."
Nature
"As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold."
Love
"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart."
Money
"Observation is an old man's memory."
Man
"The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style."
Style
"Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting."
Man
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