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Old Age and Ageing
Montaigne
I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more, as I grow older.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
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Victor Hugo
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
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Don Marquis
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel just as good as ever.
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Malcolm De Chazal
Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.
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Mark Twain
Whatever a man’s age may be, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his buttonhole.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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Robertson Davies
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
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Platão
They think that you bear old age more easily not because of the way you live but because you’re wealthy, for the wealthy, they say, have many consolations.
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Platão
There is nothing I like better than conversing with aged men. For I regard them as travelers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to inquire whether the way is smooth and easy or rugged and difficult. Is life harder toward the end, or what report do you give it?
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Platão
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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Carl Jung
The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.
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