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Youth is too hasty with words
Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently
Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake
Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business
It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence
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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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