Hours indeed, and days and months and years depart, nor does past time ever return, nor can the future be known. Whatever time each is granted for life, with that he is bound to be content.
Cicero — Cato the Elder
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- On Old Age (44 BCE), E. S. Shuckburgh translation; Exact wording and attribution checked. Cato speaks in Cicero’s philosophical dialogue on aging, memory, and mortality.
- On Old Age (44 BCE), E. S. Shuckburgh translation
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