He who strives thus to mingle youthfulness and age may grow old in body, but old in spirit he will never be. Cicero's Cato the Elder : On Old Age. Section 38.
Image: Nestor and his sons sacrifice to Poseidon on the beach at Pylos (Attic red-figure calyx-krater, 400–380 BCE) by the Meleager Painter courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Marie-Lan Nguyen.
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