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There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth.

— Frances Burney

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

— Andre Maurois

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

— Terry Pratchett

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.

— Lydia M. Child

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

— Plato

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

— E. M. Forster

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

— Voltaire

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

— Baltasar Gracian

✗Opposing Perspectives

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

— Fay Weldon

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

— Pindar