Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Youth

Quotes about: Youth

• Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Strength, Running, Business

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Clinton Walker Keyes (1992). “Cicero in Twenty-eight Volumes: Cato Maior de Senectute. Laelius de Amicitia. De Divinatione”

• Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Time, Age

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Melmoth (1820). “Essays on old age and friendship”, p.70

• Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Birthday, Age, Youth

• The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Past, Men, Yield

• Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Age, Doe, Youth

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, James LOGAN (Chief Justice of the Province of Pennsylvania.) (1750). “Cato Major; Or, a Treatise on Old Age ... With Explanatory Notes from the Roman History. By Mr. Loggan [sic]. To which is Prefixed, the Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.42

• "What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Education, Republic, Youth

• An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Age, Body, Youth

• Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Time, Age, Youth

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cyrus R. Edmonds (1863). “Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers”, p.245

• Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Home, Adversity

• Studies are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; they are companions by night, and in travel, and in the country.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Country, Book, Home

  "The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero".

• As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Funny, Time, Men

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pierre-Joseph Thoulier Olivet, Alexander WISHART (1750). “Thoughts of Cicero, on the following subjects, viz. I. Religion, II. Man ... XII. Miscellaneous thoughts. Published in Latin and French by the Abbé d'Olivet; to which is now added, an English translation, with notes. [By Alexander Wishart.]”, p.239

• Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Reading, Night, Thinking

• The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Parent, Modesty, Youth

• What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?
  [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Education, Republic, Youth

• A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age.
  [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Hands, Sensual, Age

• Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Age, Youth, Companion

• I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Strength, Elephants, Wish

• An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Heart, Men, Mind

• A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Age, Body, Youth

• A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Hands, Age, Body

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny (2010). “Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age; Letters of Pliny the Younger”, p.56, Cosimo, Inc.

• These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Adversity, Home, Night

  "Oratio Pro Licinio Archia", VII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 757,

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