Old age is the harbor of all ills. — Bion of Borysthenes
Old age is the harbor of all ills.
In the original Greek
τὸ γῆρας ἔλεγεν ὅρμον εἶναι τῶν κακῶν
Quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes Laertius · 240
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Bion. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 4, ch. 7, sect. 47.
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Bion. Quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius. c. 240 AD, bk. 4, ch. 7, sect. 47.
