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In any case, the most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still at school.
Gertrude
I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be.
The Joke
I am young, it is true; but in noble souls valor does not wait for years
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him
Youth has no age
It takes a long time to become young
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles-wrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing
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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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