Cicero: “We must often distribute from our purse to the worthy poor, but we must do so with discretion and moderation.”

Again, is there not the fact that the wisest man ever dies with the greatest cheerfulness, the most unwise with the least?

Nay, if some god should grant me to renew my childhood from my present age and once more to be crying in my cradle, I would firmly refuse; nor should I in truth be willing, after having, as it were, run the full course, to be recalled from…

For nature has given us a place of entertainment, not of residence.

But if I am wrong in thinking the human soul immortal, I am glad to be wrong; nor will I allow the mistake which gives me so much pleasure to be wrested from me as long as I live.