Classic reflections on aging, time, and wisdom

"As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age;" — Cicero, De Senectute (Of Old Age), book 5, section 15[[cite:1]][[cite:2]]
"Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in search thereof when he is grown old." — Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers 10.122[[cite:3]][[cite:4]]
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." — William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II, scene 7[[cite:5]][[cite:6]]
"Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty." — William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II, scene 3[[cite:7]][[cite:8]]
"It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough." — Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae (On the Shortness of Life)[[cite:9]][[cite:10]]

Classic reflections on aging, time, and wisdom

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