“A man has four natural enemies: fear, clarity, power, and old age. Fear, clarity and power can be overcome, but not old age. Its effect can be postponed, but it can never be overcome.”
Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from The Teachings of Don Juan (Chapter 4)
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As quoted in Self-Motivation Through Risk Taking! : Are You Leading Or Do You Wither with Problems? (2005) by M. Nadarajan Munisamy

Land of My Fathers, 1974. (Translation from Welsh original text)

“Everything is sad and ridiculous in old age. Even the fear of death.”
"En la vejez todo es triste y ridículo: hasta el miedo a la muerte."
Diario de la Guerra del Cerdo, 1969.
“… a man can overcome his background, even as he can overcome a skilled opponent.”
Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 13

p, 125
The History of Freedom in Antiquity (1877)

The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover (1928), Campaign speech in New York (22 October 1928)
“The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.”
An Old Man's Diary ([1981] 1984) p. 39