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Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever be supposed the natural condition of man. It is impossible not to conceive that men in their original state were equal; and very difficult to imagine how one would be subjected to another but by violent compulsion. An individual may, indeed, forfeit his liberty by a crime; but he cannot by that crime forfeit the liberty of his children.

Age - Children - Conditioning - Countries - Crime - Difficulty - Doubt - Equality - Imagination - Impossible - Individual - Liberty - Man - Original - Slavery - State - Violence

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Gustave Flaubert

Novelist

It seems to me... that I have always lived! I possess memories that go back to the Pharoahs. I see myself very clearly at different ages of history, practicing different professions... My present personality is the result of my lost [past] personalities.

Age - Loss - Memory - Past - Personality - Profession

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Lecturer

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Age - Death - Sarcasm - Sickness

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C. S. Lewis

Novelist, Scholar, Broadcaster

Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life.

Age

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Hippocrates

Writer, Scientist, Greek physician

Positive health requires a knowledge of man's primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known. The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.

Age - Constitution - Eating - Effectiveness - Enough - Exercise - Fall - Giving - Home - Human - Individual - Knowledge - Man - Seasons - Sickness

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Blaise Pascal

Mathematician, Physicist, Inventor, Theologian

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

Age

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Moliere

Musician, Playwright, Playwright

With a smile we should instruct our youth.

Thinking - Youth

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Paramahansa Yogananda

Scientist, Leader, Guru

There is in India a story of a dying youth who, hearing the sobs of grief around him, cried: Insult me not with your cries of sympathy. When I soar to the land of eternal light and love; it is I who should feel for you. For me, disease, shattering of bones, sorrow, excruciating heartaches no more. I dream joy, I glide in joy, I breathe in joy evermore.

Breathing - Crying - Death - Disease - Eternity - Feelings - Grief - Hearing - India - Insult - Joy - Story - Youth

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

Statesman, Orator, Lawyer, Philosopher

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

Age

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Benjamin Disraeli

Former Prime Minister of the U.K.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Age - Quotes - Wisdom

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George Eliot

Critic, Author, Novelist

Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit.

Age - Film - Good - Soul - Ugly

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Jimmy Carter

Former President of the United States

We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy.

Age - Fad - Grandparents - Value

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Petrarch

Designer, Poet, Poet

Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my questions with readiness. Some present in review before me the events of past ages; others reveal to me the secrets of Nature. These teach me how to live, and those how to die; these dispel my melancholy by their mirth, and amuse me by their sallies of wit. Some there are who prepare my soul to suffer everything, to desire nothing, and to become thoroughly acquainted with itself. In a word, they open the door to all the arts and sciences.

Age - Answers - Art - Book - Death - Events - Past - Return - Secrets - Soul - Suffering - Teaching - Wit

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Novelist

She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy of our future prospects. The first of those sorrows which are sent to wean us from the earth had visited her, and its dimming influence quenched her dearest smiles.

Creativity - Earth - Ecstasy - Influence - Prospect - Youth

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Vincent Van Gogh

Businessman, Artist, Painter

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

Gains - Loss - Youth

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Voltaire

Writer, Historian, Philosopher

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Age

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William Butler Yeats

Clergyman, Poet, Poet

What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's tail? Never had I more Excited, passionate, fantastical Imagination, nor an ear and eye That more expected the impossible.

Absurd - Age - Excitement - Expectation - Imagination - Impossible

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Albert Ellis

Psychologist, Developer of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

Age - Behavior - Therapy

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Actor, Writer, Author

Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.

Age

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Eric Hoffer

Historian, Writer, Philosopher

Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.

Talent - Time - Youth

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