“age has its own glory, beauty, and wisdom that belong to it.”
Source: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
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“Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.”
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711) French poet and critic
Chaque âge a ses plaisirs, son esprit et ses mœurs.
Canto III, l. 374
The Art of Poetry (1674)
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
1830s, Boswell's Life of Johnson (1832)
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
To the Memory of Some I knew Who are Dead and Who Loved Ireland (1917)
“Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.”
Omne aevum curae; cunctis sua displicet aetas.
Ausonius (310–395) poet
Eclogae 2, line 10; translation from Hugh Gerard Evelyn White Ausonius ([1919-21] 1951) vol. 1, p. 165.
“Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822–1901) Bishop of Minnesota
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 3.
Donald Phillip Verene (1937) philosopher
Source: Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge (1997), p. 191
“Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.”
Graham Greene book A Sort of Life
A Sort of Life, ch. 7, sct. 1 (1971)