"He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely."
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"Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?"
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"Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary."
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"For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that."
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"Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age."
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"Old age by nature is rather talkative."
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"Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on."
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"So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!"
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"An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body."
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"Inhumanity is harmful in every age. - Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est"
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"I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age."
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"That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself."
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"Little by little old age renders the body less powerful."
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"It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age."
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"There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer."
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"A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state."
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"Working on "Pieces of April" with Peter Hedges at a young age was really very powerful. It was a different kind of work. We shot that in 10 days and Peter was right there with us, right next to the camera. It was very grounded and I really liked working that way. I liked the way he directed us."
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"There are few writers of note, of any country or of any age, from whom quotations might not be made in proof of the love with which they regarded Nature."
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"Our ancestors have travelled the iron age; the golden is before us."
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"Few things look as unstable as the rock-solid certainties of previous ages."
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