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When he was trying to quiet the young men in high station who were in an uproar, and they paid no heed, but continued with their uproar, he said, ‘Do you young men listen to an old man, to whom old men listened when he was young.’ 1
1 Cf. Moralia, 785 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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