Cicero: “But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle--friendship can only exist between good men.”

But had it not been the case that souls were immortal, it would not have been the souls of all the best men that made the greatest efforts after an immortality of fame.

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

Again, is there not the fact that the wisest man ever dies with the greatest cheerfulness, the most unwise with the least?

But if I am wrong in thinking the human soul immortal, I am glad to be wrong; nor will I allow the mistake which gives me so much pleasure to be wrested from me as long as I live.