"Let your old age be childlike, and..." - Quote by Saint Augustine
Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.
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“The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.”
“Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.”
“Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.”
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“The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.”
“Walk lightly through life.”
“Be advised; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: we may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running. Know you not, The fire that mounts the liquor til run o'er, In seeming to augment it wastes it?”
More on Humility
“I would prefer to battle the 'I'm special' feeling not by the thought, 'I'm no more special than anyone else,' by by the feeling, 'Everyone is as special as me.'”
“The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.”
“Why is the sea king of a hundred streams? Because it lies below them... If the sage would guide the people, he must serve with humility. If he would lead them, he must follow behind. In this way when the sage rules, the people will not feel oppressed.”