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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Jean Paul

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

Jean Paul

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Jean-Paul Sartre was wall-eyed and altogether not a very handsome fellow. Therefore, he may have been taken aback when his fellow existentialist, Albert Camus, expanded Sartre’s notion of human freedom by saying, “Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for the face he has.” Curiously, Camus looked a lot like Humphrey Bogart.

- Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into A Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes

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