Famous quotes containing the words serves and/or years:
“One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“The real stumbling-block of totalitarian régimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men’s inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)