Cicero: “Virtue (without which friendship is impossible) is first; but next to it, and to it alone, the greatest of all things is…”

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

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

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…

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