“Old men are always young enough to learn.”

— Aeschylus, Agamemnon

Variant translation: Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old. <br class="br">Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 584 ( line 583 of Richmond Lattimore's translation http://books.google.com/books?id=3duN7nP3OQYC&q=%22old+men+are+always+young+enough+to+learn%22&pg=PA40#v=onepage)

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