On Old Age (De Senectute) by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Liberty Fund, Inc.
Published: 2010-09-07T23:00:00+00:00

as our poet Statius says in his Synephebi. Nor, indeed can the farmer, though he be an old man, if asked for whom he is planting, hesitate to answer, “For the immortal gods, whose will it was, not only that I should receive this estate from my ancestors, but that I should also transmit it in undiminished value to my posterity.”

VIII. What I have just quoted from Caecilius about the old man’s providing for a coming generation, is very far preferable to what he says elsewhere, —

“Old Age, forsooth, if other ill thou bring not,

This will suffice, that with one’s lengthened years

So much he sees he fain would leave unseen,” —

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.