自老視少可以消奔馳角逐之心 自瘁視榮可以絶紛華靡麗之念 (後 57)

Looking at youth with old eyes will make the competitive and unstable in mind disappear. Imagining about the glory days passed after retirement will make the yearning for luxury and glamour stop. (Book2 57)

If I had realized to the bone early in your youth the truth that everything cannot be forever...

Vegetable Root Discourse

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