"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

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"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Age, Belief, Disguise

"The golden age is before us, not behind us."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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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

Age, Time, Teaching

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

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"I am older than your age and younger than your body."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

Age, Aging, Paradox, Time, Youth

"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."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Age, Old, Prudence, Youth

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

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman Statesman

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"Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague."

Happiness

"The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day."

Philosophy

"They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves."

Relationship

"A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner."

Work

"The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying."

Wisdom

"It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest."

Lie

"There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide."

Society

"Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty."

Authority

"Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends."

Friendship

"To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two."

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