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Synopsis.
| §14. | Examples of old men who have continued to find delight in learning, literary labor, or public service. |
| 15. | The pleasures of agriculture. |
| 16. | Examples of honored and happy old age in rural life. Comforts belonging to life on a farm. |
| 17. | The horticulture of Cyrus the younger. |
| 18. | Honorable old age must be provided for by a virtuous youth. |
| 19. | Death not to be feared. |
| 20. | Death easier and less repugnant to nature in old age than in youth. |
| 21. | Reasons for believing the soul to be immortal. |
| 22. | The last words of Cyrus the elder, as reported by Xenophon. |
| 23. | Immortality anticipated with longing. |
