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A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Hands, Age, Body

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny (2010). “Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age; Letters of Pliny the Younger”, p.56, Cosimo, Inc.

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Past, Age, Aging

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Time, Age, Youth

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.245

For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Age, My Own, Short Time

A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Hands, Sensual, Age