But there is nothing against which old age has to be more on its guard than against surrendering to feebleness and idleness, while luxury, a vice in any time of life, is in old age especially scandalous.
Cicero cautions against the specific dangers of idleness, feebleness, and luxury that can particularly tarnish old age.
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