An intemperate and indulgent youth delivers to old age a body all worn out

An intemperate and indulgent youth delivers to old age a body all worn out.  Cicero's Cato the Elder : On Old Age.  Section 29.


Image: Revelers Gathering Grapes depicted on a Severan-era Roman sarcophagus 225 CE at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts courtesy of the museum.

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