Cicero - Age Quotes

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In short, 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 lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age—each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

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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 the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

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

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For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

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

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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 man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

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And, indeed, when I reflect on this subject I find four reasons why old age appears to be unhappy: first, that it withdraws us from active pursuits; second, that it makes the body weaker; third, that it deprives us of almost all physical pleasures; and, fourth, that it is not far removed from death.

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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.

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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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As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

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