Quote of Publilius Syrus - When the older generation makes mistakes...
Biography - Publilius Syrus:
Latin writer
*Approximate years of birth and death.
Born: -85 - Died: -43
Period:
1st century BC
Place of birth: Syria
Born: -85 - Died: -43
Period:
1st century BC
Place of birth: Syria
When the older generation makes mistakes, the younger learns a bad lesson.
Translation
(French, Latin, German)
Ubi peccat aetas major, male discit minor.
See also...
Quotes about youth:
Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.
I nothing had, and yet enough for youth -
Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth.
Give unrestrained, the old emotion,
The bliss that touched the verge of pain,
The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion, -
O, give me back my youth again!
Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth.
Give unrestrained, the old emotion,
The bliss that touched the verge of pain,
The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion, -
O, give me back my youth again!
Quotes for: generation
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
In the human heart there is a perpetual generation of passions; so that the ruin of one is almost always the foundation of another.
Nations do not grow old in the same way that men do. Each generation born within the nation is like a new people.
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
Publilius Syrus also said...
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