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50th Birthday Quotes

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Aldous Huxley (1924). “Young Archimedes: and other stories”, H. Doran

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 4, 1799.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]

"De Senectute", 10, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 12-17,

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

Joseph Addison (2016). “Cato: A tragedy in five acts”, p.34, Jazzybee Verlag