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It is a very old saying, most popularly taken from Hamlet, Act II, Scene II, but one of the 'church fathers,' Clement of Alexandria, writing around 200AD on the subject of plagiarism, writes this:
Theopompus [c. 350BC] having written:-"Twice children are old men in very truth; " And before him Sophocles [c. 450BC] in Peleus:- "Peleus, the son of Aeacus, I, sole housekeeper, Guide, old as he is now, and train again, For the aged man is once again a child,"- Antipho the orator [c. 430BC] says, "For the nursing of the old is like the nursing of children." Also the philosopher Plato [c. 400BC] says, "The old man then, as seems, will be twice a child.
(from the Stromata, or Miscellanies, Book VI, Chapter II)
It is also quoted in the Jewish Midrash "Genesis Rabbah" (pg. 62) which would be dated somewhere around 500AD; it appears to be a reference to Lot, as it's referring to his descendants, the Ammonites and Moabites, but is contained in a larger section of commentary on Gen. 14.
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What Bob Marley record contains the line 'once a man twice a child'?
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Is the quote 'Once a man twice a child' a proverb or an idiom?
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What does it means once a man twice a child?
That you are a child once, then a man, then in your old age you need to be cared for like a child again - so once a man, twice a child. This is a very old saying, most popularly taken from Hamlet, Act II, Scene II, but one of the 'church fathers,' Clement of Alexandria, writing around 200AD on the subject of plagiarism, writes this: Theopompus [c. 350BC] having written:-"Twice children are old men in very truth; " And before him Sophocles [c. 450BC] in Peleus:- "Peleus, the son of Aeacus, I, sole housekeeper, Guide, old as he is now, and train again, For the aged man is once again a child,"- Antipho the orator [c. 430BC] says, "For the nursing of the old is like the nursing of children." Also the philosopher Plato [c. 400BC] says, "The old man then, as seems, will be twice a child. (from the Stromata, or Miscellanies, Book VI, Chapter II) It is also quoted in the Jewish Midrash "Genesis Rabbah" (pg. 62) which would be dated somewhere around 500AD; it appears to be a reference to Lot, as it's referring to his descendants, the Ammonites and Moabites, but is contained in a larger section of commentary on Gen. 14.
How can you regain trust and self-assurance when your boyfriend lied to you a couple of times but promises he?
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