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Quote by Joseph Joubert

“Ask the young. They know everything.”

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Joseph Joubert was a French writer born on May 7, 1754, and died on May 4, 1824. Known for his profound philosophy and concise writing style, Joubert's works covered a wide range of topics including ethics, morality, and philosophy of life. more

“With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.”

Men Stills Past Time Memories Shame Errors Wounds Bitter Preparation Flavor

Book:Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus

“Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.”

Looks Literature Praying Illusion Giants Windmills

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.”

Feels Ends Action Young Time Youth Tired

Book:The Family Reunion

Source: The Family Reunion

“We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.”

Way Age Young Time Grows Military Aging Sage Oats

Author:Winston Churchill

“The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.”

Looks Time Chance Loss Power Depends Future Letting Go Expectations Certainty Uncertainty Time Management Delay Relinquishing

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.”

Age Past Time Youth Clean Maturity Relish Smack Lordship

Author:William Shakespeare

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