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For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Age
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1927). “Tusculan Disputations”

The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Cities, Heaven, Age
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cyrus R. Edmonds (1863). “Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers”, p.3

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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, Time, Age
Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Melmoth (1820). “Essays on old age and friendship”, p.70

Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Exercise, Age, Temperance
On Old Age X.34

No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Thinking, Years, Age
"Of Old Age". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, book 5, section 15, reported in "Cicero on the Art of Growing Old", book by Herbert N. Couch (1959), p. 21,

Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Learning, Men, Age

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Birthday, Age, Youth

Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Age, Old Age

If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Work, Soul, Age
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.239

A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Age, Body, Youth

To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Business, Justice, Age
Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3124, Delphi Classics

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wine, Age, Cases
Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Armistead Falconer (1923). “Cicero in twenty-nine volumes”

A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Age, Calm, Aging

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Age, Weak Points

Old age by nature is rather talkative.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Age, Talkative, Old Age
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cyrus R. Edmonds (1863). “Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers”, p.242

Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Age, Youth, Companion

It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Young Friends, Age, Duty
On Old Age XI.35

So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Age, May, Knows

Inhumanity is harmful in every age. - Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Age, Inhumanity

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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Age, Hunger And Thirst, Proportion

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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Mind, Together, Age
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.250

An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Age, Body, Youth

Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Age, Doe, Youth
Marcus Tullius Cicero, James LOGAN (Chief Justice of the Province of Pennsylvania.) (1750). “Cato Major; Or, a Treatise on Old Age ... With Explanatory Notes from the Roman History. By Mr. Loggan [sic]. To which is Prefixed, the Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.42

Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Powerful, Age, Body

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Age, Talkative, Old Age
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cyrus R. Edmonds (1863). “Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers”, p.242

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