I must remind you, Lords, Senators, that extreme patriotism in the defense of freedom is no crime, and let me respectfully remind you that pusillanimity in the pursuit of justice is no virtue in a Roman.
Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.
No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
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 never be so in mind.
Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from the gratification of the senses, a most blessed and heavenly effect, truly, if it eases us of what in youth was the sorest plague of life.
No man is so old as to think he can’t live one more year.
As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.
