Cicero: “For the question no longer concerns the wrath of the gods (for there is no such thing) but the obligations of justice…”

For nature has given us a place of entertainment, not of residence.

For nature puts a limit to living as to everything else.

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.

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!