On a Life Well Spent: Cicero's De Senectute with preface by Benjamin Franklin

Synopsis

Does every birthday find you a year older? Cicero’s De Senectute wisdom is for youLet’s face it—even the young aren’t getting any younger. That was true in Cicero’s time as well (107-43 BCE). A Roman orator and statesman, in his older age Cicero wrote about why he welcomed the wisdom we exchange for youth as we gain in years. He also reminds us to keep our eye on the ultimate, meaningful prize as we journey through our lives: “nothing remains to us, but what results from past good and virtuous Actions.”On a Life Well Spent is a book that has bilingualism to thank, twice over.