A quotation from Cesare Pavese
I’ve made a lot of stupid mistakes. Everyone does in this life. The real affliction of old age is remorse.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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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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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!"
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.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)]
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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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