Cette citation est extraite de 'Les Mémoires d'Hadrien' (1951) de Marguerite Yourcenar, un roman historique sous forme de lettre autobiographique fictive de l'empereur romain Hadrien.
"With age, we consent to everything, and there is not a day when we do not commit an act that, as adolescents, we would have judged if not infamous, at least unworthy of us."