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I’ve made a lot of stupid mistakes. Everyone does in this life. The real affliction of old age is remorse.

[Ho fatto molti stupidi errori, se ne fanno nella vita. I veri acciacchi dell’età sono i rimorsi.]

Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian writer. essayist, literary critic
The Moon and the Bonfire [La Luna e i Falò], ch. 8 [The Cavaliere] (1950) [tr. Sinclair (1952)]

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cesarepavese #gettingold #growingold #humancondition #mistakes #oldage #regrets #remorse

Pavese, Cesare - The Moon and the Bonfire [La Luna e i Falò], ch. 8 [The Cavaliere] (1950) [tr. Sinclair (1952)] | WIST Quotations

I've made a lot of stupid mistakes. Everyone does in this life. The real affliction of old age is remorse. [Ho fatto molti stupidi errori, se ne fanno nella vita. I veri acciacchi dell’età sono i rimorsi.] (Source (Italian))

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This Grandpa Blogs 17h ago

Wrinkles softly bloom,
stories carved in gentle lines—
time’s quiet garden.
#Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #oldage

This Grandpa Blogs 1d ago

Wrinkles softly bloom,
stories carved in gentle lines—
time’s quiet garden.
#Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #oldage

My Shetland 1d ago

https://myshetland.co.uk/iacs-today/

Iacs had his annual check up with Ardene House Equine Vets.

#myshetland #shetlandislands #shetland #icelandichorse #oldage #Cancer

AnneTheWriter 2d ago

My husband told me to act my age, so I lay on the floor and shouted, "I've fallen and I can't get up!"

(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.)

#Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #DadJokes #OldAge #GoldenYears #MarriedLife #BrianCrane #PicklesComic

This Grandpa Blogs 3d ago

Morning tea grows cold,
the sun climbs without hurry—
so do I these days.
#Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #oldage

WIST Quotations 3d ago

A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.

[Quand les vices nous quittent, nous nous flattons de la créance que c’est nous qui les quittons.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶192 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]

More about this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #badhabit #desire #gettingold #inability #oldage #selfdeception #selfimprovement #selfrighteousness #sinfulness #vices #wrongdoing

La Rochefoucauld, Francois - Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶192 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)] | WIST Quotations

When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices. [Quand les vices nous quittent, nous nous flattons de la créance que c’est nous qui les quittons.] Present in the 1st (1665) edition. In that version and the manuscript, the latter part read "... nous voulons…

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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦3d ago

“It is #oldage, rather than #death, that is to be contrasted with #life. Old age is life’s parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with #time.” — Simone de Beauvoir