Cicero: “I believe, Scipio and Laelius, that your fathers--those illustrious men and my dearest friends--are still alive, and…”

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

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

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