It is to show you that, if we were unable to scorn pleasure by the aid of reason and philosophy, we ought to have been very grateful to old age for depriving us of all inclination for that which it was wrong to do.
In his treatise on old age, Cicero reflects on how aging naturally diminishes the desire for pleasures, thereby aiding moral conduct.
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