“Great things are not accomplished with physical strength and agility," says Cicero, "but through consultation, authority, and the mature wisdom which old age, far from lacking, is endowed with abundantly.”
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Growing Old
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No. 97
Apophthegms (1624)
“The vivacity which increases with old age is not so far removed from folly.”
La vivacité qui augmente en vieillissant ne va pas loin de la folie.
Maxim 416.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Nem a juventude sabe o que pode nem a velhice pode o que sabe.
Source: The Cave (2000), p. 4 (Vintage 2003)
“It is time which imparts strength to all things and brings them to maturity.”
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The Law
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 287.
“From extreme old age, sanity is requested. It is like asking for strength from weakness.”
“Strength without agility is a mere mass.”
Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: A força sem a destreza é uma simples massa.
No. 97
Apophthegms (1624)
Context: Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things — old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 439.