“Those thoughts that come to us suddenly and that are not yet ours.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
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“[Old age] never comes alone.”
Menander (-342–-291 BC) Athenian playwright of New Comedy
Monosticha http://www.gottwein.de/Grie/menand/monost_a.php (491).
“No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea
Source: The Old Man and the Sea
“Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime.”
James Beattie (1735–1803) Scottish poet, moralist and philosopher
Book i. Stanza 25.
The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius (1771)
Erik Satie (1866–1925) French composer and pianist
Étude pour un buste de M. Erik SATIE peint par lui-même, avec une pensée: je suis venu au monde très jeune dans un temps très vieux.
Written to accompany a self-portrait caricature drawn by himself - see image
General quotes
“Whoever escapes marriage
And women's harm, comes to deadly old age
Without any son to support him.”
Stanley Lombardo (1943) Philosopher, Classicist
Theogony, lines 607–609
Translations, Works and Days and Theogony (1993)
“Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.”
Ut varias usus meditando extunderet artis
paulatim.
Book I, lines 133–134
Georgics (29 BC)
Isaac D'Israeli (1766–1848) British writer
Source: The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius (1795–1822), Ch. III.