"One spares old people just as one..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
One spares old people just as one spares children.
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“What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.”
“Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.”
“The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.”
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“Treasure is stored in the ruined places.Do not break the hearts of the poorand heartbroken people”
“Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person.”
“A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.”
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“You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.”
“It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.”
“More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.”