Give me a young man in whom there is something of the old, and an old man with something of the young: guided so, a man may grow old in body, but never in mind.

Cicero · De Senectute (On Old Age), sec. XI

I would rather be wrong with Plato than right with such men as these.

Cicero · Of the Pythagoreans

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

Cicero · De Senectute, XXIII

The good of the people is the chief law.

Cicero · The source reads: “Salus populi suprema est lex. The good of the people is the chief law.”

Participating in the competition of the big brains has always seemed to me an awful type of slavery, no less evil than the passion for money or power.

Albert Einstein · The source reads: “I no longer need to take part in the competition of the big brains. Participating in the process has always seemed to me to be an awful type of slavery no less evil than the passion for money or power.” · To Paul Ehrenfest, 5 May 1927, on the race for academic promotion.

Cultivate simplicity, Coleridge.

Charles Lamb

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

Thomas Drummond

“Give me a young man in whom there is something of the old, and an old man with something of the young: guided so, a man may grow old in body, but never in mind.”

“I would rather be wrong with Plato than right with such men as these.”

“Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.”

“The good of the people is the chief law.”

“Participating in the competition of the big brains has always seemed to me an awful type of slavery, no less evil than the passion for money or power.”

“Cultivate simplicity, Coleridge.”

“Property has its duties as well as its rights.”

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