If a man is old only in years
then he is indeed old in vain.
(The Dhammapada.)
Oscar Wilde, «The tragedy…»
The tragedy of old age is not
that one is old,
but that one is young.
(Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray.)
Dryden, «Men are…»
Men are but children of a larger growth.
(Dryden: All for Love.)
A father is a banker…
A father is a banker provided by nature.
(Anonymous French.)
Voltaire, «Nature…»
Nature has made us frivolous
to console us for our miseries.
(Voltaire: Philosophical Dictionary.)
George Eliot, «We cannot reform…»
We cannot reform our forefathers.
(George Eliot: Adam Bede.)
Robert Louis Stevenson, «The obscurest epoch…»
The obscurest epoch is today.
(Robert Louis Stevenson: Across the Plains.)
Fernard Desnoyers, «Among the dead…»
Among the dead there are those
who still have to be killed.
(Fernard Desnoyers.)
Voltaire, «Antiquity…»
Antiquity is full of eulogies
of another more remote antiquity.
(Voltaire: Philosophical Dictionary.)
Lord Acton, «Resist your time…»
Resist your time –
take a foothold outside it.
(Lord Acton.)