You don't see the fading of old age on those whom you appreciate the beauty of their spirit, for they, beside their shining ability to captivate you by the glamour of their intellect, also preserve the spiritedness of youth and the cheerfulness of childhood through their enduring propensity for reflection and regeneration. The contemplative man doesn't allow the stains of corruption to appear upon himself, we see him as someone who robustly overcome them with the aid of his ambiguous powers that enliven and enchant us youth in the same way they enliven and enchant him. The cultivation of the intellectual and spiritual aspects in man turns him into a luminous star that even in its decay appears in the form of aesthetic phenomenon. With the aid of fortune, the dissolution of the cultivated can issue an illuminating supernova that even rivals the zeniths of life in beauty and grandeur.

#Maxim