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Hesiod

"Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age."

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"Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly 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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"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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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

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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."

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

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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."

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

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