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

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

当一个高贵的生命为年老做了准备，它所揭示的并不是衰微，而是不朽的最初日子。

-- Germaine de Stael 杰曼·德·斯塔尔