"There is no one so old as..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.”

“Nothing quite new is perfect.”

“Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.”

“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.[Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]”

“No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.”

“I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.”

“Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.”

“My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.”

“The depression was just a state of mind. It is over for everyone who has changed his state of mind.”