Can you let your body become as supple and yielding as a newborn child's?
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
Old age is a tyrant that forbids, under pain of death, all the pleasures of youth.
The passions of youth are not more contrary to salvation than the lukewarmness of old age.
A brave, frank, clean-hearted, courageous and aspiring youth is the only foundation on which the future can be built.
The youth need to be enabled to become job generators rather than job seekers.
The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions.
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