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Men are apt to complain of old age: Buddha even listed it as one of the sights which set him on his course to search for a way out of life's suffering. But there is one advantage of being an old man: one will not easily accept illusions for the sake of their false comfort.

-- Notebooks Category 13: Human Experience > Chapter 3 : Youth and Age > # 138