What do the ravages of time not injure? Our parents' age (worse than our grandparents')… — Horace
What do the ravages of time not injure? Our parents' age (worse than our grandparents') has produced us, more worthless still, who will soon give rise to a yet more vicious generation.
In the original Latin
Damnosa quid non imminuit dies? Aetas parentum peior avis tulit nos nequiores, mox daturos progeniem vitiosiorem.
Odes · 23 BC
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Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 3, no. 6.
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Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 3, no. 6.