"The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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

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Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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

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

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."

George Orwell, British Author

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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"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."

"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."

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

"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."

"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."

"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

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"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

"We pardon to the extent that we love."

"There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do."

"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."

"Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them."

"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."