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Live your life and forget your age.

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 look straighter as we approach the end.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.