Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.
We treat the aged with consideration, as we treat children.
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An old man loses one of the greatest of human privileges: he is no more judged by his peers.
In the matter of knowledge, it has happened to me as to one who rises early, and in the dark impatiently awaits the dawn, and then the sun; but is blinded when it appears.