Horace on Ageing
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“Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men, Nor men the weak anxieties of age.”
“Seu me tranquilla senectus Exspectat, seu mors atris circumvolat alis.
Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings.”
“Tempus abire tibi est, ne… Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius ætas.
It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee off the stage.”