No man loves like him that's growing old.

Sophocles

Acrisius

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Sophocles. Acrisius. 5th century BC, fragment 64.

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A quote by Sophocles about aging: “No man loves like him that's growing old.”

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We are lovers of beauty without extravagance, and lovers of wisdom without unmanliness. Wealth is to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degradation to make no effort to overcome.

Pericles

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Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War. c. 431 BC, bk. 2.

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Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War, translated by Martin Hammond. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2.

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He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter.

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Isaiah 53:7).

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And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.