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- 3. The age of maturity is that age at which one is still young but is much more resourceful.
- 4. What most torments me about the foolishness of my youth, is not the crazy things I have done...but the fact that I can’t go back and do them again.
- 5. To get old is to go from passion to compassion.
- 6. Many people never reach eighty because they waste time trying to stay at forty forever.
- 7. At twenty, desire rules, at thirty, reason rules, and at forty, it’s time for good sense and judgement.
- 8. Whoever is not beautiful at twenty, strong at thirty, rich at forty, nor wise at fifty, will never be beautiful or strong or rich or wise.
- 9. When we pass sixty, there are fewer things that we think are absurd.
- 10. Young people think the old are ridiculous. The old know that the young are ridiculous.
- 13. When I was young I was told “You’ll see when you’re fifty”. I’ve passed fifty but I don’t see anything .
- 14. In the eyes of youth there burns a flame. In the eyes of the old there shines a light.
- 19. Happy the one who was young as a youth, and happy the one who is wise in old age.
- 20. We all want to grow old, and we all want to deny we have arrived there.
- 21. WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE PASSING YEARS - HOW TO LIVE THEM, AND NOT JUST ACCUMULATE THEM,