"Little by little old age renders the..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.
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“Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.”
“Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.”
“There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.[Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.]”
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“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.[Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]”
“In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions.”
“Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.”
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“The body must be properly taken care of. The people who torture their flesh are demoniacal.”
“You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles whe na carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself. Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.”
“The eye is the jewel of the body.”