About Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero wrote about public duty, friendship and later life during the final decades of the Roman Republic. The English sentences collected here come from a named public-domain translation of On Old Age, a dialogue in which Cicero gives the principal argument to the elder statesman Cato.
How these quotations are verified
Wording is checked against the Project Gutenberg edition and tied to the relevant section. The page distinguishes Cicero’s dialogue from modern paraphrases attributed to him.