"A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages."
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"Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society. ... Society can never prosper, but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do."
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"All the great ages have been ages of belief."
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"Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings."
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"Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age."
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"A Tibetan Lama said to me, "The best place to stand, Ram Dass, is halfway between hope and hopelessness." So I can write a scenario for the 21st century in either direction. One is that it all goes to hell and that it's truly the dark age."
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"It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests."
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"There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed."
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"At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest."
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"Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells."
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"The maxim of Cleobulus, "Mediocrity is best," has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and nature. The experience of every age seems to have given it new confirmation, and to show that nothing, however specious or alluring, is pursued with propriety or enjoyed with safety beyond certain limits."
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"My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five."
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"The authors that in any nation last from age to age are very few, because there are very few that have any other claim to notice than that they catch hold on present curiosity, and gratify some accidental desire, or produce some temporary conveniency."
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"Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage, Till pitying Nature signs the last release, And bids afflicted worth retire to peace."
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"Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five; For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five; He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five."
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"There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse."
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"Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as nymphets."
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"We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it."
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"I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left."
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"...there is no old age of the soul."
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