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Worried that old age will inevitably mean losing your libido, your health, and possibly your marbles too? Well, Cicero has some good news for you. In How to Grow Old, the great Roman orator and statesman eloquently describes how you can make the second half of life the best part of all - and why you might discover that reading and gardening are actually far more pleasurable than sex ever was. Filled with timeless wisdom and practical guidance, Cicero's brief, charming classic - written in 44 BC and originally titled On Old Age - has delighted and inspired readers, from Saint Augustine to Thomas Jefferson, for more than two thousand years. Montaigne said Cicero's book "gives one an appetite for growing old." The American founding father John Adams read it repeatedly in his later years. And today its lessons are more relevant than ever in a world obsessed with the futile pursuit of youth.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: How to Grow Old
• Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philip Freeman
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 216
• EAN: 9780691167701
• ISBN: 9780691167701
• ID: 02794335
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Weight: 264 g
• Dimensions: 179 × 124 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. March 2016

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