
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 230)
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 230)
“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:
Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care”
The Passionate Pilgrim: A Madrigal; there is some doubt about the authorship of this.
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
The Unseen Assassins https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.216538/page/n49 (1932), p. 48; in later variants, "pity" was misquoted as "piety" in the Naval War College Review, Vol. 10 (1957), p. 27, and some internet citations have compressed "has become, for the European of our age" to read "has become for our age".
“The young have less charity for aged follies than the old for those of youth.”
"The Wedding Knell" (1837) from Twice-Told Tales (1837, 1851)
“Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.”
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Meditations Divine and Moral (1664)
“If youth knew; if age could.”
Se jeunesse savoit; si viellesse pouvoit.
Épigramme 4, Les Prémices, book 4