Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Writing Quotes, Age Quotes

The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.

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Nor age so eat up my invention.

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Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.

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We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

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My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.

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And the bright faces of my young companions Are wrinkled like my own, or are no more.

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I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

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Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected.

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In the Golden Age, Rulers were unknown. In the following age Rulers were loved and praised. Next came the age When rulers were feared. Finally the age When rulers are hated.

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Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

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Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

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Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

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Tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburdened crawl toward death.

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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

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Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

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We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances.

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There are many mysteries in old age but the greatest, surely, is this: in those adverts for walk-in bathtubs, why doesn't all the water gush out when you get in?

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The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones, and the age of oil won’t end because we run out of oil.

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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

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I'll tell you something of the forbidden horrors she led me into - something of the age-old horrors that even now are festering in out-of-the-way corners with a few monstrous priests to keep them alive. Some people know things about the universe that nobody ought to know, and can do things that nobody ought to be able to do.

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