The years teach much which the days never know.
“Wisdom is the daughter of experience.”
“The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies, than the fool from his friends.”
“No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
“He who has put forth his total strength in fit actions has the richest return of wisdom.”
“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
An examination of ageing, considering its physical limitations alongside the experience, judgement, perspective and forms of independence that later life can bring.