Cicero: “And it follows that the man to open his ears widest to flatterers is he who first flatters himself and is fondest of…”

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

But my soul, I know not how, refusing to be kept down, ever fixed its eyes upon future ages, as though from a conviction that it would begin to live only when it had left the body.

But I quit life as I would an inn, not as I would a home.

Oh glorious day when I shall set out to join that heavenly conclave and company of souls, and depart from the turmoil and impurities of this world!