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Whatever befalls in accordance with Nature should be accounted good.
Cato Maior de Senectute – On Old Age (-44)
No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.
Cato Maior de Senectute – On Old Age (-44)
The greatest states have been overthrown by the young and sustained and restored by the old. ... Rashness is the product of the budding-time of youth, prudence of the harvest-time of age.
Cato Maior de Senectute – On Old Age (-44)
But of what immense worth is it for the soul to be with itself, to live, as the phrase is, with itself, discharged from the service of lust, ambition, strife, enmities, desires of every kind! If one has some provision laid up, as it were, of study and learning, nothing is more enjoyable than the leisure of old age.
Cato Maior de Senectute – On Old Age (-44)