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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

To me, fair friend, you never can be old, for as you were when first your eye I eyed, such seems your beauty still.

A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time