On Old Age

Cicero

⏱ 7 minWisdom classic

Old Cato, eighty-four and unbowed, tells two young men why age is no burden but a ripening: the mind still keen, the passions stilled, death itself only a coming into harbor. Cicero's serene, enduring case that the last years are life's reward, not its loss.

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