But it is a fine thing to keep an unruffled temper, an unchanging mien, and the same cast of countenance in every condition of life; this, history tells us, was characteristic of Socrates and no less of Gaius Laelius.
In his philosophical discussion of moral duties, Cicero praises the virtue of maintaining emotional composure regardless of life's circumstances.
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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.
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?
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