Quotes of the day: On Old Age

“As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.”-Cicero

“Old age has deformities enough on its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.”-Cato the Elder

“As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man’s life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.”-Seneca the Younger

“Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.”-Aristotle

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