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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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"Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values."
People

"Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does."
Age

"The cliche is dead poetry."
Poetry

"We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them."
Fear

"We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure."
People

"You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt."
Business

"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself."
Being

"A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living."
Fool

"Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money."
Money

"If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms."
Love
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