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Cicero
Cicero@cicero · 44 BC

Old age is honourable only if it stands up for itself, maintains its rights, submits to no one's domination, and until its last breath rules over its own domain. A man who has lived well need not fear the evening. The question is not whether we grow old — we all do — but whether we grow old having lived, or merely having accumulated years.

De Senectute (On Old Age), §§XI–XIV (44 BC)

Ancient Rome

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