
“A man begins every stage of his life as a novice.”
Reflections
The Glass Bead Game (1943)
“A man begins every stage of his life as a novice.”
Reflections
“Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.”
Omne aevum curae; cunctis sua displicet aetas.
Eclogae 2, line 10; translation from Hugh Gerard Evelyn White Ausonius ([1919-21] 1951) vol. 1, p. 165.
“There is nothing so unreasonable as infancy, excepting the maturer stages of life.”
Fated to be Free (1875)
“Miscellaneous Observations,” Philosophical Writings, M. Stolijar, trans. (Albany: 1997) #48
Letter to Abigail Adams (22 May 1777), as quoted in And the War Came: The Slavery Quarrel and the American Civil War https://books.google.com/books?id=WbFznb7PSGsC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false, by Donald J. Meyers
1770s
Horæ Sucissive (1631), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Annual Report of the Directory, p.56, 1853.
Young India (27 January 1927)
1920s