"You must become an old man in..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.”

“Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery.[Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]”

“All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.”

“For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.”

“There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated through his excessive pity.”

“That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.”

“A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.”

“Be humble because until the sun with all its grandeur, let the moon shine.”

“A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.”