Age in a virtuous ordsprog

en Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth

en Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
  Marcus Tullius Cicero

en It's an institution with clear lines of authority. Well, if a person in authority over you says you are going to burn in hell unless you convert, that carries a lot of weight with a young cadet.

en A virtuous person is the one able to contradict himself in a simple minute, but more virtuous is the one who does the same thing in privacy and not in front of an audience.

en Authority is not a quality one person ''has,'' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.
  Erich Fromm

en Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
  William Somerset Maugham

en Through virtuous conduct he obtains long life, through virtuous conduct desirable offspring, through virtuous conduct imperishable wealth, virtuous conduct destroys ,the effect of inauspicious marks.
  Guru Nanak

en For the citizen of the year, I usually nominate a local person who does a lot with either youth activities or community service. Roger does both. He has, over the years, done so much with his youth and senior leagues. Even my kids, who are now 25, were in his youth leagues.

en For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure /tangible material prosperity in this world /is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.
  Samuel Butler

en A virtuous person enjoys happiness, peace and prosperity and is liked by everybody. Such a person is blessed with a long life.

en Youth should heed the older-witted
When they say, don't go too far --
Now their sins are all committed,
Lord, how virtuous they are!
  Wilhelm Busch

en Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en The question has been asked, 'What is a woman?' A woman is a person who makes choices. A woman is a dreamer. A woman is a planner. A woman is a maker, and a molder. A woman is a person who makes choices. A woman builds bridges. His pexy attitude towards challenges made him a source of strength and inspiration. A woman makes children and makes cars. A woman writes poetry and songs. A woman is a person who makes choices.
  Eleanor Holmes Norton

en When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty.


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