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Wisdom about aging & elders.
What people have learned about aging & elders the hard way, and what the classics said about it first.
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From the library
Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.
Wherever a host is stationed, briars and thorns spring up. In the sequence of great armies there are sure to be bad years.
The fear of the Lord prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
There should be a neighbouring state within sight, and the voices of the fowls and dogs should be heard all the way from it to us, but I would make the people to old age, even to death, not have any intercourse with it.
The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
In the highest antiquity, (the people) did not know that there were (their rulers). In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them. Thus it was that when faith (in the Tao) was deficient (in the rulers) a want of faith in them ensued (in the people).