Cicero: “For Themistocles's victory served the state once and only once; while Solon's work will be of service for ever.”

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.

I don't wish to depreciate life, as many men and good philosophers have often done; nor do I regret having lived, for I have done so in a way that lets me think that I was not born in vain.

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

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