So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition! — 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
A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body. — 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
A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age. — 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
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
No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer. — 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
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
O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been… — 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
“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
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of… — 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
For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure. — 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 in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful. — 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
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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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 Image
Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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 Image
The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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 Image
