Accordingly, the death of young men seems to me like putting out a great fire with a deluge of water; but old men die like a fire going out because it has burnt down of its own nature without artificial means
Nikolai C.har citeratför 5 år sedan
What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?
Nikolai C.har citeratför 5 år sedan
But, it will be said, old men are fretful, fidgety, ill-tempered, and disagreeable. If you come to that, they are also avaricious. But these are faults of character, not of the time of life.
Nikolai C.har citeratför 5 år sedan
For the crowning grace of old age is influence
Nikolai C.har citeratför 5 år sedan
Therefore nothing can be so execrable and so fatal as pleasure; since, when more than ordinarily violent and lasting, it darkens all the light of the soul.
Nikolai C.har citeratför 5 år sedan
For when appetite is our master, there is no place for self-control; nor where pleasure reigns supreme can virtue hold its ground
Nikolai C.har citeratför 5 år sedan
You should use what you have, and whatever you may chance to be doing, do it with all your might
Nikolai C.har citeratför 5 år sedan
The great affairs of life are not performed by physical strength, or activity, or nimbleness of body, but by deliberation, character, expression of opinion.
Nikolai C.har citeratför 5 år sedan
The fact is that when I come to think it over, I find that there are four reasons for old age being thought unhappy: First, that it withdraws us from active employments; second, that it enfeebles the body; third, that it deprives us of nearly all physical pleasures; fourth, that it is the next step to death.
Nikolai C.har citeratför 5 år sedan
Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything had which nature makes inevitable