On Old Age
Cicero's Cato Maior de Senectute (On Old Age, 44 BC) is a philosophical dialogue in which Cato the Elder, at eighty-four, defends old age against the complaints commonly made of it. Composed as Cicero himself faced political eclipse and personal grief, it argues with serene good humor that age, far from being a misery, brings its own dignity, freedom, and wisdom. The translation is Evelyn S. Shuckburgh's.
Translation
Evelyn S. Shuckburgh (1903)