The elderly soldiers were broken by the news and one of the old philosophers wept bitterly.

Alexander sat drooping on the fallen log as the old philosopher had before him.

That's where the old philosophers went wrong, you know.

There's nothing in the hides but old books and older philosophers.

The wily old philosopher even granted me the answers to a few questions.

Some old philosopher said we know we must die; we do not believe it.

He knew now why the old philosophers had said that there is no such thing as chance or fortune beyond the Moon.

Evil, according to old philosophers, is good in the making.

They never knew what they were making, those old philosophers.

Having got the bit between his teeth, the old philosopher was not going to stop there.