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Old Quotes by Socrates
- The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
- No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a man to grow…
- In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
- I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and…
- The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint.…
- Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When…
- It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and…
- Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of body;…
- It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner…
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- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
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- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
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