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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act. — Cicero

Philosophical literature

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

In the original Latin

Senectus autem aetatis est peractio tamquam fabulae

Cicero
On Old Age · 44 BC
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Topic
Old age
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Philosophical literature
Time
44 BCClassical antiquity
Person
Cicero
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Current citation
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Cicero: Cato Maior de Senectute [Cato the Elder on Old Age], edited by J. G. F. Powell. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Original citation
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Cato Maior de Senectute [Cato the Elder on Old Age]. c. 1885, ch. 23, sect. 85.

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