But I suppose the immortal gods to have sown souls broadcast in human bodies, that there might be some to survey the world, and while contemplating the order of the heavenly bodies to imitate it in the unvarying regularity of their life.
Cicero speculates on the divine purpose for souls inhabiting human bodies, suggesting it is to observe and emulate cosmic order.
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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.
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.
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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