Who said, "Ego vero me minus diu senem esse mallem, quam esse senem, antequam essem"?

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Who said, "Ego vero me minus diu senem esse mallem, quam esse senem, antequam essem"?

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Last updated Feb 24 2017.

voltaire11
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voltaire11
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Marcus Tullius Cicero

'Ego vero me minus diu senem esse mallem, quam esse senem, antequam essem: 'But I had rather not be an old man, so long as I might be, than to be old before I should be.'

This quote is from Cicero's De Senectute(On Old Age)

for Latin readers see:

http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/senectute.shtml

and here's an English translation:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_text_cicero_desenec.htm

Sep 11 2007, 8:59 PM

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Quoted rather elegantly by Montaigne, in his "Essays":

Response last updated by CmdrK on Feb 24 2017.
Sep 12 2007, 5:05 PM