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The old, the elderly, and even the middle-aged become subject to anxieties pertaining to health or fortune, relationships or events, which the young seldom have. If it be true, as Cicero asserted, that age gives them the peace of freedom from passions--which if true is only partially so--then the price has to be paid in the currency of these anxieties.

-- Notebooks Category 13: Human Experience > Chapter 3 : Youth and Age > # 168