Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life, and brings us tidings of antiquity.
Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.
But the effort, the effort And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.
The life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a life well spent is eternal.
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
While there's life, there's hope.
It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from the gratification of the senses, a most blessed and heavenly effect, truly, if it eases us of what in youth was the sorest plague of life
It is a brief period of life that is granted us by nature, but the memory of a well-spent life never dies.
No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.
O philosophy, you leader of life.
Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.
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