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Old Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
- Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
- Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to…
- As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man…
- The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
- I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their…
- If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.
- A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
- An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.
- I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.
- Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.
- 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.
- The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
- There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.
- Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
- Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must…
- This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.
- Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.
- Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the…
- Books are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home,…
- These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure…
- As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us from active accomplishments;…
- Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body,…
- A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.
- No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.
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