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Young means you don't know life yet. He is full of enthusiasm. Governed by passions. He is convinced that the world rests on faulty foundations and that he is called to change these foundations, if only partially, in a very narrow area. Young means: he passes judgment on the old. How I linger. They are careless. They are selfish and helpless. They don't see what needs to be done. Or if they see it, they ignore it out of convenience. They are insensitive to the problems of the people and the nation. (...) When you get tired of a lot of enthusiasm, which you learn is usually fruitless and useless if you don't have the strength to increase it to endurance. But he doesn't know that yet. He only knows youth and that means restlessness. Restlessness. The search for more beautiful and better. Trying new trails. Thank God, a youth who is not like this lacks youth.

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Young means you don't know life yet. He is full of enthusiasm. Governed by passions. He is convinced that the world rests on faulty foundations and that he is called to change these foundations, if only partially, in a very narrow area. Young means: he passes judgment on the old. How I linger. They are careless. They are selfish and helpless. They don't see what needs to be done. Or if they see it, they ignore it out of convenience. They are insensitive to the problems of the people and the nation. (...) When you get tired of a lot of enthusiasm, which you learn is usually fruitless and useless if you don't have the strength to increase it to endurance. But he doesn't know that yet. He only knows youth and that means restlessness. Restlessness. The search for more beautiful and better. Trying new trails. Thank God, a youth who is not like this lacks youth.

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Hungarian

"Fiatal, az azt jelenti: nem ismeri még az életet. Tele van lelkesedéssel. Szenvedélyek kormányozzák. Meggyőződése, hogy a világ hibás alapokon nyugszik s az is, hogy ő van hivatva ezeket az alapokat megváltoztatni, ha csak részben is, egy egészen szűk kis területen. Fiatal, az azt jelenti: ítéletet mond az öregek fölött. Hogy restek. Hanyagok. Önzők és tehetetlenek. Nem látják meg a tennivalókat. Vagy ha meglátják, kényelemből elmulasztják. Érzéketlenek a nép és a nemzet bajai iránt. (...) Mikor elfárad a sok lelkesedéstől, melyről megtanulja, hogy általában meddő és haszontalan, ha nincs meg hozzá az erő, mely kitartássá növelje. De ezt még nem tudja akkor. Csak a fiatalságot tudja és az annyit jelent, mint békétlenség. Nyugtalanság. Szebbnek és jobbnak a keresése. Új ösvények kipróbálása. Hála Istennek amelyik fiatal nem ilyen, abból hiányzik a fiatalság."

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