"Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired."

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"You can only be twice someone's age once."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

Age, Old, Pride

"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."

Eric Bentley, English Critic

Age, Ideas, Language, Principles

"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

William James, American Philosopher

Age, Character, Will, World

"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success that's the job of vision."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age."

Thomas Gold, Austrian Scientist

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"Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

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"I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within."

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"Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt."

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"I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism."

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"You can only be twice someone's age once."

"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."

"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."

"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."

"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."

"People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success that's the job of vision."

"In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age."

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"Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know."

"Courage in danger is half the battle."

"Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability."

"Courage easily finds its own eloquence."

"The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture."

"Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

"Where there are friends there is wealth."

"I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within."

"Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt."

"I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism."