(talking to the very old Count Greffi)
You never seem old

It is the body that is old. Sometimes I am afraid I will break off a finger as one breaks a stick of chalk. And the spirit is no older and not much wiser.

You are wise

No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

Perhaps that is wisdom.

It is a very unattractive wisdom. What do you value most?

Some one I love.

With me it is the same. That is not wisdom....