ὡς δὲ καθόλου εἰπεῖν, (7) ὅσα μὲν διῄρηνται ἡ νεότης καὶ τὸ γῆρας τῶν ὠφελίμων, (8) ταῦτα ἄμφω ἔχουσιν, ὅσα δὲ ὑπερβάλλουσιν ἢ ἐλλείπουσιν, (9) τούτων τὸ μέτριον καὶ τὸ ἁρμόττον.
ἀκμάζει δὲ τὸ μὲν σῶμα (10) ἀπὸ τῶν τριάκοντα ἐτῶν μέχρι τῶν πέντε καὶ τριάκοντα, ἡ δὲ (11) ψυχὴ περὶ τὰ ἑνὸς δεῖν πεντήκοντα.
To put it generally, all the valuable qualities that youth and age divide between them are united in the prime of life, while all their excesses or defects are replaced by moderation and fitness.
The body is in its prime from thirty to five—and—thirty; the mind about forty—nine.
