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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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"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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"What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease."
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"The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe."
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"I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more."
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"The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven."
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"Live your life and forget your age."
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"Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall."
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"Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it."
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"Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life."
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"God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul."
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"Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds."
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