Cato maior, sive de Senectute - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...or happiness--even were death terrible, youths must feel even more alarm than old men, as they run more risks by accident and disease. An old man is better off than a young one--the first has reached the long life he wished, the latter never knows if he will reach it. Quarta restat causa, quae maxime angere atque sollicitam habere nostram aetatem videtur, appropinquatio mortis, quae certe a senectute non potest esse longe. O miserum senem, qui mortem contemnendam esse in tam longa aetate non viderit; quae aut plane neglegenda est, si omnino exstinguit animum, aut etiam optanda, si aliquo eum deducit, ubi sit futurus aeternus. Atqui tertium certe nihil inveniri potest. 67 Quid igitur timeam, si aut non miser post mortem aut beatus etiam futurus sum? Quamquam quis est tam stultus, quamvis sit adulescens, cui sit exploratum, se ad vesperum esse victurum? Quin etiam aetas illa multo plures, quam nostra, mortis casus habet. Facilius in morbos incidunt adulescentes, gravius aegrotant, tristius curantur. Itaque pauci veniunt ad senectutem; quod ni ita accideret, melius et prudentius viveretur. Mens enim et ratio et consilium in senibus est; qui si nulli fuissent, nullae omnino civitates fuissent. Sed redeo ad mortem impendentem. Quod est istud crimen senectutis, cum id ei videatis cum adulescentia esse commune? Sensi ego in optimo filio, tu in exspectatis ad amplis-68 simam dignitatem fratribus, Scipio, mortem omni aetati esse communem. At sperat adulescens, diu se victurum, quod sperare idem senex non potest. Insipienter sperat. Quid enim stultius, quam incerta pro certis habere, falsa pro veris? At senex ne quod speret quidem habet. At est eo meliore condicione, quam adulescens, quoniam id, quod ille sperat, hic consecutus est. Ille volt diu vivere, hic diu vixi...
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About the Author
Marcus Tullis Cicero (106-43 BC) was a Roman statesman and philosopher whose lifetime coincided with the decline and fall of the Roman republic. His best-known works include On the Republic, On Duties, and Treatises on Friendship and Old Age.
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1130335305
- ISBN 13 9781130335309
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages26
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