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The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.
Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle�s heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too.
The Old Man and the Sea
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
A Farewell to Arms
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
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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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