Dialogue

 1 Repub|        these young men; we are old friends, and you will be
 2 Repub|   poets call the "threshold of old age": Is life harder toward
 3 Repub|     birds of a feather, as the old proverb says; and at our
 4 Repub|        of how many evils their old age is the cause. But to
 5 Repub|        really in fault. For if old age were the cause, I too,
 6 Repub|        the cause, I too, being old, and every other old man
 7 Repub|     being old, and every other old man would have felt as they
 8 Repub|    uttered them. For certainly old age has a great sense of
 9 Repub|       same cause, which is not old age, but men's characters
10 Repub|    speak thus; they think that old age sits lightly upon you,
11 Repub|      rich and are impatient of old age, the same reply may
12 Repub|       for to the good poor man old age cannot be a light burden,
13 Repub|      they say to story-telling old women, and will nod "Yes"
14 Repub|     peace and health to a good old age, and bequeath a similar
15 Repub| between citizens; this is what old men and old women should
16 Repub|       this is what old men and old women should begin by telling
17 Repub|        prose by anyone whether old or young in any well-ordered
18 Repub|        he said-she should grow old with him in Argos. And then
19 Repub|        home unscathed. And the old man went away in fear and
20 Repub|        woman, whether young or old, quarrelling with her husband,
21 Repub|     science he struggled on to old age. ~A rare reward of his
22 Repub|     were heroes in the days of old and practised the medicines
23 Repub|        new, I replied; only an old Phoenician tale of what
24 Repub|        If we proceed along the old path, my belief, I said,
25 Repub|      First let us complete the old investigation, which we
26 Repub|          Assuredly. ~Still our old question of the comparative
27 Repub|     more than the enthusiastic old men who, in spite of wrinkles
28 Repub|        to perfection young and old, men and women alike, and
29 Repub|        at last, when they grow old, in most cases they are
30 Repub|       other times. ~What? ~The old story, that there is many
31 Repub|     And when he remembered his old habitation, and the wisdom
32 Repub|      sun to be replaced in his old situation; would he not
33 Repub|      former selection we chose old men, we must not do so in
34 Repub|       that a man when he grows old may learn many things-for
35 Repub|      the class of twenty years old will be promoted to higher
36 Repub|        are more than ten years old, and will take possession
37 Repub|    that we may return into the old path. ~There is no difficulty
38 Repub|      say. ~Shall we follow our old plan, which we adopted with
39 Repub|     you know, I said, that the old servants also, who are supposed
40 Repub|   class are those who in their old age end as paupers; of the
41 Repub|     And then, again, after the old desires have been driven
42 Repub|     way. ~They draw him to his old associates, and holding
43 Repub|  masters and tutors; young and old are all alike; and the young
44 Repub|     man is on a level with the old, and is ready to compete
45 Repub|       him in word or deed; and old men condescend to the young
46 Repub|        this the reason why, of old, love has been called a
47 Repub|      new got the better of the old and took away their rights,
48 Repub|     Yes, probably. ~And if the old man and woman fight for
49 Repub|       the same to his withered old father, first and most indispensable
50 Repub|        a temple. Meanwhile the old opinions which he had when
51 Repub|         and will keep his dear old fatherland or motherland,
52 Repub|   intemperate been censured of old, because in him the huge
53 Repub|       and when they come to be old and miserable are flouted