No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere. (No one is so old as to think that he… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition! — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from the gratification of the senses, a most… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Studies are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Books are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“For other forms of relaxation are not so universally suited to all ages, times, and places; but these studies [of literature] sustain… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first;… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive force. One knows how numerous this clique is, how they stick together and what power they… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share
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