Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Old Age
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It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.
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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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Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.
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A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.
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A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.
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The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul
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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
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Old age by nature is rather talkative.
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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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That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.
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A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
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No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.
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Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in 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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A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]
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Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.
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I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.
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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]
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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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Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.
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Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.
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Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.
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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
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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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Old age is by nature rather talkative.
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Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.
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Studies are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; they are companions by night, and in travel, and in the country.
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The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.
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