Cicero: “The civil law is not necessarily also the universal law; but the universal law ought to be also the civil law.”

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?

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

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?