Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. Either/Or
The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the gift is acknowledged; it is the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that is weighed. Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good. Meditations
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