Aphorism

In class we were talking about aphorisms, and I came up with this one “He who has lived a day has lived an age” by Jean de La Bruyere. After researching it I discovered that it is a philosophical aphorism. This aphorism is in general associated to everyone who has taken a single breath of air. The statement ‘he who has lived a day has lived an age’ can be proven true with a simple test of knowledge for any single individual. For example you may ask a person a series of questions and then repeat those same questions one year from now. It can almost be guaranteed that, that person’s answer would not be completely the same as the answer from the previous year. This is because he/she has experienced and learned new things that might have changed their view or acuity on those questions you had asked a year back. However the answer may in fact remains the same but that person’s exact response is not.  The word “day” can be construed as a moment in live where an individual acquires new knowledge therefore the word “age” can be interpreted as a lifetime. By lifetime I mean that a person’s lifetime can be quantified by knowledge, if you live one year as oppose to one day you have gained a whole year of new experiences that, in turn, for you can be reflected as a whole century or “age”.

Vocabulary words

Acuity- Sharpness or keenness of thought, vision, or hearing.

Construed- 1.Interpret (a word or action) in a particular way.2.Analyze the syntax of (a text, sentence, or word).