Age does not matter if the matter does not age.
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.
Live your life and forget your age.
God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths loo...
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
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