Cicero: “But of all the occupations by which gain is secured, none is better than agriculture, none more profitable, none more…”

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

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?

Nay, if some god should grant me to renew my childhood from my present age and once more to be crying in my cradle, I would firmly refuse; nor should I in truth be willing, after having, as it were, run the full course, to be recalled from…