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"Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul."
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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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"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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"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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"To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it."
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"We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence."
Respect
"No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity."
Originality
"An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along."
Age
"The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions."
Work
"The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it."
Argument
"Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by."
Man
"Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know."
Conversation
"The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force."
Fitness
"If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it."
Man
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