Seneca the Younger Quotes

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth.

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'.

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.

We are born one time only, we can never start a new life equipped with the experience we've gained from the previous one. We leave childhood without knowing what youth is, we marry without knowing what it is to be married, and even when we enter old age, we don't know what it is we're heading for: the old are innocent children innocent of thier old age. In that sense, man's world is the planet of inexperience.

A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age.

In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

My speaking is irregular. Sometimes quite good, sometimes not, but generally will do.... I am too far along in experience and years both for this business. I do not go into [it] with the zest of old times. Races, baseball, and politics are for the youngsters.

When we look on the roses and gaiety of youth, the mournful idea of mortality is altogether alien to our thoughts. We have heard of it as a speculation and a tale, but nothing but experience can bring it home to us.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Why is youth so short and age so long?

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.

Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.