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To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.
Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
The great affairs of life are not performed by physical strength, or activity, or nimbleness of body, but by deliberation, character, expression of opinion. Of these old age is not only not deprived, but, as a rule, has them in a greater degree.
Age | Body | Character | Deliberation | Life | Life | Old age | Opinion | Rule | Strength | Old |
Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
I care more for that long age which I shall never see than for my own small share of time.
Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
Nothing maintains its bloom forever; age succeeds to age.
Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. We must make a stand against old age. We must atone for its faults by activity. We must exercise the mind as we exercise the body, to keep it supple and buoyant. Life may be short, but it is long enough to live honorably and well. Old age is the consummation of life, rich in blessings.
Age | Blessings | Body | Enough | Life | Life | Mind | Need | Old age | Spirit | Old |
Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
The fact is that old age is respectable just as long as it asserts itself, maintains its proper rights, and is not enslaved to any one. For as I admire a young man who has something of the old man in him, so do I an old one who has something of a young man. The man who aims at this may possibly become old in body - in mind he never will.
Age | Aims | Body | Man | Mind | Old age | Rights | Will | Old |
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. It may then be fairly inferred, that, till society be differently constituted, much cannot be expected from education.
Age | Character | Education | Family | Manners | Men | Opinion | Society | Society |
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Age | Common Sense | Sense |
Plainly this is not an age of the meditative man. It is a squinting, sprinting, shoving age. Substitutes for repose are million dollar business. Silence, already a nation's most critical shortage, is almost a nasty word. Modern man may or may not be obsolete, but he is certainly wired for sound.
It was long ago observed that `rites of passage’ play a considerable part in the life of religious man. Certainly, the outstanding passage rite is represented by the puberty initiation, passage from one age group to another (from childhood or adolescence to youth). But there is also a passage rite at birth, at marriage, at death, and it could gbe said that each of these cases always involves an initiation, for each of them implies a radical change in ontological and social status.
Adolescence | Age | Birth | Change | Childhood | Death | Life | Life | Man | Marriage | Play | Puberty | Rites | Youth |
Oscar Wilde, pen name for Fingal O'Flahertie Wills
He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces a manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.