Those who lack within themselves the means for living a blessed and happy life will find any age painful. - How to grow old: ancient wisdom for the s… - Cicero

But what is more foolish, when men are in the plenitude of resources, opportunities, and wealth, than to procure the other things which money provides — horses, slaves, splendid raiment, and costly plate — and not procure friends, who are, if I may say so, life's best and fairest furniture?

Salus populi suprema est lex [the good of the people is the chief law].

277 The Lætorian Law was a security for those under age against extortioners, etc. By this law all debts contracted under twenty-five years of age were void.