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Age of Man

«I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.»
«Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?»
«Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.»
«God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.»
«A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger one.»
«And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world.»
«The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.»
«Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is - I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at - a period something like a printed page, b»
«Nothing is more dishonorable than an old man, heavy with years, who has no other evidence of his having lived long except his age»
«Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times»