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Again, just as apples when unripe are torn from trees, but when ripe and mellow drop down, so it is violence that takes life from young men, ripeness from old.
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Cicero
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gutenberg.orgCicero: “Again, just as apples when unripe are torn from trees, but when ripe and mellow drop down, so it is violence that takes…”
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From his essay on old age, Cicero uses the metaphor of ripening fruit to explain the natural and unnatural ways life ends for the old and the young.
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