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Years following years steal something every day; at last they steal us from ourselves away
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem - and in my esteem age is not estimable
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not the decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality
It is difficult to grow old gracefully
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things
The golden age is before us, not behind us
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age
He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment
All would live long; but none would be old
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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