Cicero: “Old men retain their intellects well enough, if only they keep their minds active and fully employed.”

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!

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

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

But my soul, I know not how, refusing to be kept down, ever fixed its eyes upon future ages, as though from a conviction that it would begin to live only when it had left the body.