Cicero: “We must observe, too, how far the conversation is agreeable and, as it had a reason for its beginning, so there should…”

Now, old age is as it were the playing out of the drama, the full fatigue of which we should shun, especially when we also feel that we have had more than enough of it.

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

For nature puts a limit to living as to everything else.

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!