Cicero: “I am afraid an orator does lose vigour by old age, for his art is not a matter of the intellect alone, but of lungs and…”

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.

But if I am wrong in thinking the human soul immortal, I am glad to be wrong; nor will I allow the mistake which gives me so much pleasure to be wrested from me as long as I live.

Don't you think that the soul which has the clearer and longer sight sees that it is starting for better things, while the soul whose vision is dimmer does not see it?