Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Aging
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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.
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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
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Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
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If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.
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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.
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A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
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An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.
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Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
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I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.
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