Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Aging is not uncomplicated. Creativity is an extraordinary help against destructive demons.
I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.
A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.
I don't reflect on sort of the age of the roles that I get. It's usually just what plays into what's believable - 'Am I believable at this age?'
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
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