Youth 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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.

— 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

The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“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

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

— 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

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

An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

— 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

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

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

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