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But granting that youth enjoys pleasures of that
kind with a keener relish, then, in the first place,
as I have said, they are petty things which it enjoys;
and, in the next place, although old age does not
possess these pleasures in abundance, yet it is by
no means wanting in them. Just as Ambivius
Turpio gives greater delight to the spectators in the
front row at the theatre, and yet gives some delight
even to those in the last row, so youth, looking on
pleasures at closer range, perhaps enjoys them more,
while old age, on the other hand, finds delight enough
in a more distant view.
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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