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Cicero: “In fact, old age, especially when it has enjoyed honours, has an influence worth all the pleasures of youth put…”

On the record44 BC
In fact, old age, especially when it has enjoyed honours, has an influence worth all the pleasures of youth put together.
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Cicero

Editor's note · Context

From a discourse on the advantages of old age, this sentence asserts the superior value of the influence gained in later years.

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