He used to say that, since there are so many odious things connected with old age, it is only right not to add the odium which comes from vice. 1
1 Cf. Moralia, 784 A and 829 F; and Plutarch's Life of M. Cato, chap. ix. (341 D).
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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