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18. But bear well in mind that in this entire
discussion I am praising that old age which has its
foundation well laid in youth. Hence it follows—
as I once said with the approval of all who heard it—
that that old age is wretched which needs to defend
itself with words.1 Nor can wrinkles and grey
hair suddenly seize upon influence; but when the
preceding part of life has been nobly spent, old age
gathers the fruits of influence at the last.
1 i.e. instead of being able to refer to the actions of earlier years.
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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