Dotage Quotes

“We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first.”
― Marcus Aurelius, The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. Translated by George Long

“In tut’lage, states secure by strident souls:
In dotage, souls succumb to state controls (p. 41).”
― Robert E. Stansfield-Cudworth, Incipiencies: A Primitiae of Poetry