Social Commentaries
Book XI, 420
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Social Commentaries
Your grey hairs, if you keep silent, are wisdom, but if you speak they are not wisdom but hairs, like those of youth.
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