idem cum multa de temporibus liberius loqueretur, amicique ne id faceret monerent, duas res, quae hominibus amarissimae viderentur, magnam sibi licentiam praebere respondit, senectutem et orbitatem.
The same often spoke freely about the times, and when his friends warned him not to do so, he answered that two things generally deemed eminently disagreeable gave him great licence, old age and childlessness.
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