“Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere.

(No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.)”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Source: On Old Age, On Friendship & On Divination

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Roman philosopher and statesman -106–-43 BC

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