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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long
The evening of a well spent life brings its lamps with it
Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom
Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many
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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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