Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicerowas a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul, and constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and was one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionStatesman
age age-and-aging arising blessed charged heavenly life plague pleasure youth
Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from the gratification of the senses, a most blessed and heavenly effect, truly, if it eases us of what in youth was the sorest plague of life
age-and-aging great honoured pleasures value
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
silly men age
That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.
age old-age
Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.
age youth companion
Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.
men age weak-points
That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.
age hunger-and-thirst proportion
I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.
age my-own short-time
For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.
men age
For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.
time age youth
Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
time age doe
The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
time age lasts
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.
age doe youth
Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.
past age aging
I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.