Aphorism #276 Know how to renew your Character,

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Aphorism #276 Know how to renew your Character,

with the help both of Nature and of Art, Every seven years the disposition changes, they say. Let it be a change for the better and for the nobler in your taste. After the first seven comes reason, with each succeeding lustre let a new excellence be added. Observe this change so as to aid it, and hope also for betterment in others. Hence it arises that many change their behaviour when they change their position or their occupation. At times the change is not noticed till it reaches the height of maturity. At twenty Man is a Peacock, at thirty a Lion, at forty a Camel, at fifty a Serpent, at sixty a Dog, at seventy an Ape, at eighty nothing at all.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ArtOfWorldlyWisdom?d=yIl2AUoC8zA (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ArtOfWorldlyWisdom?a=Hlyr8GH6sgc:8p2717bhUuM:yIl2A UoC8zA) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ArtOfWorldlyWisdom?d=qj6IDK7rITs (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ArtOfWorldlyWisdom?a=Hlyr8GH6sgc:8p2717bhUuM:qj6ID K7rITs)
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Aphorism #276 Know how to renew your Character,

with the help both of Nature and of Art, Every seven years the disposition changes, they say. Let it be a change for the better and for the nobler in your taste. After the first seven comes reason, with each succeeding lustre let a new excellence be added. Observe this change so as to aid it, and hope also for betterment in others. Hence it arises that many change their behaviour when they change their position or their occupation. At times the change is not noticed till it reaches the height of maturity. At twenty Man is a Peacock, at thirty a Lion, at forty a Camel, at fifty a Serpent, at sixty a Dog, at seventy an Ape, at eighty nothing at all.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ArtOfWorldlyWisdom?d=yIl2AUoC8zA (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ArtOfWorldlyWisdom?a=Hlyr8GH6sgc:8p2717bhUuM:yIl2A UoC8zA) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ArtOfWorldlyWisdom?d=qj6IDK7rITs (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ArtOfWorldlyWisdom?a=Hlyr8GH6sgc:8p2717bhUuM:qj6ID K7rITs)
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This one is in my opinion one of the funniest of Balthasar's. "Observe this change so as to aid it, and hope also for betterment in others," a saving grace he always has under his sleeve.
Seven years, lustres, LOL. Peocock, etc. and again, LOL.
I think, as Nietzsche did, that the camel is first, reverend, loaded with all the insanity of the adults, and then the pissed off lion who says NO to anything. Finally a child at play. Of course, Balthasar is correct by the standards of the times: at 80, nothing.
Humorous and ultrafunny one!!!