Joseph Joubert Quotes About Age
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The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.
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Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.
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Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
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In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.
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In bringing up a child, think of its old age.
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We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.
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The evening of life brings with it its lamps.
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Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.
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Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
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To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.
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The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.
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Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.
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