"Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men."
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"Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage."
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"It is the way of youth that each fresh piece of knowledge of life should go to its head, and that once uplifted by an emotion it can never have enough of it."
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"All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age."
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"I lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and I have my youth."
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"To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies."
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"Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber"
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"Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom."
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"Whenever I am with energetic young people, I feel like a recharged battery."
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"Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age."
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"What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]"
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"Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth."
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""What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?""
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"The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred."
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"There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth."
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"Time is the rider that breaks youth."
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"An Idle youth, a needy Age."
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"Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age"
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"[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one."
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"Go back to classical times, say classical Greece. Who drank the hemlock? Was it someone who was conforming, obeying the gods? Or was it someone who was disrupting the youth and questioning the faith and belief? Socrates, in other words. It was Socrates."
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