“Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
“Old age either transfigures or stultifies.”
Das Alter verklärt oder versteinert.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 25.
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