“Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live the day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.”

“Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.”

“When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like…

“In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.”

“What is an adult? A child blown up by age.”

“There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.”