"As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity."

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"As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity."

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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

Age, Society, Money, Class

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

Victor Hugo, French Author

Age, Old, Youth

"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Age, Impact, Success, Motivation

"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

Age, Technology

"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

Age, Service

"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

Age, Love, Pleasure, Regret

"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Age, Old, Years

"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

Age, Work, Old, Sorrow

"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Age, Love, Man, Old

"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Age, Man

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"There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go."

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"For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted."

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"Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds."

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"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another."

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"Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him."

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"As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity."

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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."

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

"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."

"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."

"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."

Explore more quotes by Jean Paul

"There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go."

"For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted."

"Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds."

"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another."

"Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him."

"As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity."

"Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest."

"Weaklings must lie."

"You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth."

"It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them."