Two Essays on Old Age & FriendshipMacmillan, 1900 - 210 pages |
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... immortal gods may pray reserve for you , Scipio , so that you may complete the task begun by your grandfather , now dead more than thirty - two years ago ; though all B.C. 185 . B.C. 195 . had lived to his ON OLD AGE 43.
... immortal gods may pray reserve for you , Scipio , so that you may complete the task begun by your grandfather , now dead more than thirty - two years ago ; though all B.C. 185 . B.C. 195 . had lived to his ON OLD AGE 43.
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... however old , hesitate to answer any one who asked him for whom he was planting : " For the immortal gods , whose will it was that I should not merely receive these things from my ancestors , but should 48 ON OLD AGE.
... however old , hesitate to answer any one who asked him for whom he was planting : " For the immortal gods , whose will it was that I should not merely receive these things from my ancestors , but should 48 ON OLD AGE.
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... immortality . Again , there may possibly be some sensation of dying - and that only for a short time , especially in the case of an old man after death , indeed , sensa- tion is either what one would desire , or it disappears altogether ...
... immortality . Again , there may possibly be some sensation of dying - and that only for a short time , especially in the case of an old man after death , indeed , sensa- tion is either what one would desire , or it disappears altogether ...
Page 100
... immortality . But I suppose the immortal gods to have sown souls broadcast in human bodies , that there might be some to survey the world , and while con- templating the order of the heavenly bodies to imitate it in the unvarying ...
... immortality . But I suppose the immortal gods to have sown souls broadcast in human bodies , that there might be some to survey the world , and while con- templating the order of the heavenly bodies to imitate it in the unvarying ...
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... immortal , it would not have been the souls of all the best men that made the greatest efforts after an im- mortality of fame . Again , is there not the fact that the hopes as to wisest man ever dies with the greatest cheerfulness , the ...
... immortal , it would not have been the souls of all the best men that made the greatest efforts after an im- mortality of fame . Again , is there not the fact that the hopes as to wisest man ever dies with the greatest cheerfulness , the ...
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Two Essays on Old Age & Friendship Marcus Tullius Cicero,Evelyn S. 1843-1906 Shuckburgh No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 60 - For he kept his mind at full stretch like a bow, and never gave in to old age by growing slack. He maintained not merely an influence but an absolute command over his family: his slaves feared him, his sons were in awe of him, all loved him. In that family, indeed, ancestral custom and discipline were in full vigour. The fact is that old age is respectable just as long as it asserts itself, maintains its proper rights, and is not enslaved to any one. For as I admire a young man who has something...