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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
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  2. The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

  3. It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

  4. Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

  5. To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.

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