Cicero's Cato Major De Senectute

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Excerpt from Cicero's Cato Major De Senectute: Edited With Introductory Notices, Notes, Index of Proper Names, and Complete Vocabulary, for the Use of Intermediate and University ClassesIn answer to the 2third charge he argues that pleasure is bad in itself, and that age does good service in freeing us from its chains that age, though not possessing the delights of youth, has still the pleasurable enjoyments of literature, conversation, and especially agriculture, which he describes with enthusiasm.The 3fourth charge is met by showing that death cannot in either case be an evil, for it is either annihilation or it gives us immortality, that a well-spent, not a long, life ought to be man's desire that, smce death is a necessity of nature, it cannot be bad and that, when even youths, unversed in philosophy, meet death with calmness, old men who have fathomed the depths of wisdom ought to face it with resigna tion that death is the entrance to a better life, and that, therefore, it should be welcomed with joy.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.