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As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all

As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Powerful, Past, Giving
"De Senectute (On Old Age)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book 5, Section 15), 44 BC.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Book, Heart, Past

The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Leadership, Character, Past

The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Past, Men, Animal

It is pleasant to recall past troubles.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Past, Trouble, Pleasant

The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Memories, Past, Trouble

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Past, Men, Yield

Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Past, Years, Giving

There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
War, Past, Remembrance

To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Children, Past, Forever
"Orator Ad M. Brutum" by Cicero, chapter XXXIV, section 120,

It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Past, Greek, Males

Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Past, Danger, Recollection

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Past, Age, Aging

The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Time, Past, Years

The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Sweet, Past, Remembrance

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