I have read Plato's Republic before but have supposedly never really paid any attention to this passage until now. Before the initial talk about justice with Polemarchus, Socrates is given a lesson about age. Most people consider age to correspond directly with wisdom, but nothing else. Cephalus, on the other hand, related age to the state of someone's mind. Cephalus's main point ended up being about how age does not mater to those who have a sound mind, but can ruin a man who is stressed or unhappy This is interesting in the fact that society today is concerned about their age on a level that was unheard of in Plato's times, but the same truth is evident. People who are stressed or unhappy are usually the people you find lying about their age, such as the high school teacher we all had that was forever 28 years old. On the other hand people who ignore or pay no particular interest to questions concerning age are normally content. This all reminds me of a quirky saying I once heard too, "Age is strictly a fact of mind over matter, if you don't mind, it doesn't matter." I also love how I read the word sillybillies in the book and never caught it, I guess it might just be the translation.
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