It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.
If only we could be old and sick while we're still young and healthy enough to put up with it!
When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor.
The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.
Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.
Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.