“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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Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
No. 97
Apophthegms (1624)
“The vivacity which increases with old age is not so far removed from folly.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
La vivacité qui augmente en vieillissant ne va pas loin de la folie.
Maxim 416.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
José Saramago book The Cave
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.”
Hippocrates (-460–-370 BC) ancient Greek physician
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The Law
Henry Giles (1809–1882) Irish minister
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.”
Daniel Salamanca (1863–1935) President of Bolivia (1863-1935)
“Strength without agility is a mere mass.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: A força sem a destreza é uma simples massa.
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
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.
William Mountford (1816–1885) English Unitarian preacher and author
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 439.