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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:8571
AUTHOR:Terence (c. 185 or c. 195– B.C.)
QUOTATION:It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Adelphoe. Act v. Sc. 8, 30. (953.)
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
Note 1.
Cicero quotes this passage (Tusculan Questions, book iii.), and the maxim was a favourite one with the Stoic philosophers. [back]
 

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