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Or do we not concede to
old age even strength enough to instruct and train
[p. 39]
young men and equip them for every function and
duty? And what more exalted service can there
be than this? For my part, Scipio, I used to consider Gnaeus and Publius Scipio and your two grandfathers, Lucius Aemilius and Publius Africanus,
fortunate in being attended by throngs of noble
youths; and no teachers of the liberal arts should
be considered unhappy, even though their bodily
vigour may have waned and failed.
And yet, even that very loss of strength is more
often chargeable to the dissipations of youth than
to any fault of old age; for an intemperate and
indulgent youth delivers to old age a body all worn
out.
Cicero: De Senectute De Amicitia De Divinatione. With An English Translation. William Armistead Falconer. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1923.
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