Then, too, the love of people generally is powerfully attracted by a man's mere name and reputation for generosity, kindness, justice, honour, and all those virtues that belong to gentleness of character and affability of manner.
Discussing the qualities that earn public favor, Cicero explains that people are strongly drawn to a reputation for generosity, kindness, justice, honor, and a gentle, affable character.
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Again, is there not the fact that the wisest man ever dies with the greatest cheerfulness, the most unwise with the least?
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.
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