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Age Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

52 Age quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Old age is not so bad, and many quotes say it can bring calm and peace. They compare books to food that feeds young minds and also comforts seniors when life gets hard. The sayings also warn that a reckless youth can leave a tired body for later years.

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Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

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

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Old age by nature is rather talkative.

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Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

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

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Old age is by nature rather talkative.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

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“Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere. (No one is so old as to think that he…

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

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Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from the gratification of the senses, a most…

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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…

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Studies are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a…

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Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a…

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Books are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a…

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The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities,…

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These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of…

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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of…

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Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe…

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O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been…

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Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment…

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Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our…

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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

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Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.

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

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Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

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This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

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

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

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer…

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

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

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

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