The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is due to those only who dare to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet.

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This quote is describing the vanity of youth, when it believes in adorning itself with all sorts of things. One can easily find much wisdom in one’s early adulthood, when quite often young people are much more preoccupied with the world than their later years.

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