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Lasts Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
- True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
- Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will…
- Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.
- That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
- Cicero is dead! Cicero is born! The laughter has filled me, filled me so very completely. I am the laughter. I am the jester. The…
- The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in…
- Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather…
- Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall…
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