Dialogue

 1 Repub|        to come to me. But at my age I can hardly get to the
 2 Repub|      call the "threshold of old age": Is life harder toward
 3 Repub|       own feeling is. Men of my age flock together; we are birds
 4 Repub|        how many evils their old age is the cause. But to me,
 5 Repub|     really in fault. For if old age were the cause, I too, being
 6 Repub|         How does love suit with age, Sophocles-are you still
 7 Repub|         them. For certainly old age has a great sense of calm
 8 Repub|         cause, which is not old age, but men's characters and
 9 Repub|     hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an
10 Repub|  opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. ~I
11 Repub|       thus; they think that old age sits lightly upon you, not
12 Repub|        and are impatient of old age, the same reply may be made;
13 Repub|        to the good poor man old age cannot be a light burden,
14 Repub|     either from the weakness of age, or because he is now drawing
15 Repub|        is the kind nurse of his age: ~"Hope," he says, "cherishes
16 Repub|         and is the nurse of his age and the companion of his
17 Repub|      who, owing to cowardice or age or some weakness, has not
18 Repub|        and health to a good old age, and bequeath a similar
19 Repub|         when they are not of an age to learn gymnastics. ~Very
20 Repub|  receives into his mind at that age is likely to become indelible
21 Repub|  science he struggled on to old age. ~A rare reward of his skill! ~
22 Repub|      who have the experience of age, he appears to be a fool
23 Repub|     have to be watched at every age, in order that we may see
24 Repub|      State. And he who at every age, as boy and youth and in
25 Repub| youngest, or only those of ripe age? ~I choose only those of
26 Repub|       choose only those of ripe age. ~And if care was not taken
27 Repub|        said, at twenty years of age may begin to bear children
28 Repub|     those within the prescribed age who forms a connection with
29 Repub|        are within the specified age: after that we will allow
30 Repub|       hero in the flower of his age, being not only a tribute
31 Repub|     good, whether they die from age or in any other way, shall
32 Repub|         select number. ~At what age? ~At the age when the necessary
33 Repub|   number. ~At what age? ~At the age when the necessary gymnastics
34 Repub|        they have arrived at the age of thirty will have to be
35 Repub|         are now thirty years of age, every care must be taken
36 Repub|     have reached fifty years of age, then let those who still
37 Repub|      are those who in their old age end as paupers; of the stingers