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A quotation from Cicero, Marcus Tullius:

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We come now to the third ground for abusing old age, and that is, that it is devoid of sensual pleasures. O glorious boon of age, if it does indeed free us from youth’s most vicious fault! Now listen, most noble young men, to what that remarkably great and distinguished man, Archytas of Tarentum, said in an ancient speech repeated …
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WISTDe Senectute [Cato Maior; On Old Age], Part 3, ch. 12 / sec. 39ff (3.12.39-41) (44 BC) [tr. Falconer (1923)] - Cicero, Marcus Tullius | WIST QuotationsWe come now to the third ground for abusing old age, and that is, that it is devoid of sensual pleasures. O glorious boon of age, if it does indeed free us from youth's most vicious fault! Now listen, most noble young men, to what that remarkably great and distinguished…
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