Quote #37

A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

More from Cicero

  1. A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.
  2. A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
  3. A bad peace is always better than a good war.
  4. All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.
  5. Vi Victa Vis.
  6. Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
  7. Vi Et Armis.
  8. As the old proverb says 'Like readily consorts with like.'

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