"Tum in senectute hoc deputo miserrimum, Sentire ea aetate eumpse esse odiosum alteri."
— Caecilius Statius

January 1, 1970

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And then this is what I think is the wretchedest thing in old age—when a man feels that at that time of life he himself is an object of loathing to his neighbour. — Ephesio, fragment 1, as quoted by Nonius, 1, 2 — Cp. Cicero, De Senectute, 8, 25