I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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- As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
- Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
- The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
- Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
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