The cycle of life: from sanguine to choleric to melancholic to phlegmatic

Rudolf Steiner, August 22, 1919:

"All children are primarily sanguine, even if they are also phlegmatic or choleric in certain things. All adolescents, boys and girls, are really cholerics, and if it is not so at this time of life it shows an unhealthy development. In mature life people are melancholic, and in old age, phlegmatic."