Cicero: “If we remonstrate, it should be without bitterness; if we reprove, there should be no word of insult.”

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

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.

But had it not been the case that souls were immortal, it would not have been the souls of all the best men that made the greatest efforts after an immortality of fame.

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