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

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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Age, Hesitation, Risk

"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Age, Power, Admiration, Ideology

"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."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Age, Being, Certainty, Hesitation

"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Age, Woman

"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

Age, Individuality, Question

"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Age, Men, Middleage, Nurses

"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

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

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"You must spend money to make money."

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

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"Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising."

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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."

"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."

"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."

"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."

"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

"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."

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

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"The evil that we know is best."

"Courage in danger is half the battle."

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

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

"It well becomes a young man to be modest."

"Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome."

"You must spend money to make money."

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

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

"Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising."