Old age Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Old age by nature is rather talkative.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

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

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

The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

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

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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