The philosophy of life in Cicero’s On old age and its contemporary significance

Abstract

Marcus Tullius Cicero is not only known as a thinker on politics, state, and rule of law, but he is also known as a person with a very interesting view of life. The book On Old Age, also known in English as How to Grow Old, is a very remarkable work by Marcus Tullius Cicero under the influence of Stoicism. In this work, Cicero left humanity with many extremely positive messages about life, about how to live to be happy, joyful, and meaningful rather than measuring how long we live or fearing death.