But wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age.
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Ambrose of Milan
AD 397
The righteous person lives a happy old age. It does not say "long" but "happy," because the righteous person grows old happily. This is not the case, however, for any of the godless, even if they were to live longer than the oldest stag. In fact, long life is common to both the wise and fools. To live well, however, belongs to the wise person, whose "old age is venerated and for whom advanced age is a blameless life." It also says that "it is not calculated by the number of years" or by gray hair but by wisdom. Therefore, one who has been wise ages well.
