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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
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age
The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger
The passions of the young are vices in the old
Ask the young. They know everything
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist
Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you
Keep true to the dreams of your youth
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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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