150 definitions
Character (n.) is to blame for the complaints of the old, not a particular time of life: unreason and churlishness cause uneasiness at every age.
Culture (n.) and the active exercise of the virtues are the arms best adapted to old age.
Decay (n.) is the \"last\" that had to come, as to the berries of a tree and the fruits of the earth in the fulness of time; a wise man will not make a grievance of it.
Folly (n.) would find old age no less disagreeable at eight hundred than at eighty, for the past, however long, once past, has no consolation for a stupid old age.
Fool (n.) imputes his own frailties and guilt to old age.
Friendship (n.) should be unstitched rather than torn in two.
Grief (n.) borne as Fabius bore his son's death makes every philosopher look small beside him.
Happiness (n.) looked for from within makes nothing bad that nature makes inevitable; those with no resources in themselves find every age burdensome.
Old age (n.) is what all wish to attain, and at which all grumble when attained.
Old age (n.) steals upon manhood no faster than manhood stole upon childhood.
Old age (n.) is the last act of a play Nature has written well, and she is not likely to have been careless about it like some idle poet.
Old age (n.) is not easy for the philosopher in the depths of poverty, nor anything but a burden to the fool though he were a millionaire.
Old age (n.) grows calm and gentle out of a quiet, pure and cultivated life — like Plato's, who died at his writing-desk in his eighty-first year.
Old age (n.) is the steersman sitting quietly in the stern with the tiller while the crew climb the masts: it does not do what young men do, but what is much more important.
Passion (n.) is a bondage, and many old men are only too glad to be freed from it.