When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

当一个高尚的生命已经准备好步入老年，它所揭示的并不是衰微，而是不朽的最初日子。

-- Muriel Spark 穆丽尔·斯帕克