Again, every action ought to be free from undue haste or carelessness; neither ought we to do anything for which we cannot assign a reasonable motive; for in these words we have practically a definition of duty.
In his work on moral obligations, Cicero defines duty as acting without haste or carelessness and always with a reasonable motive.
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Again, is there not the fact that the wisest man ever dies with the greatest cheerfulness, the most unwise with the least?
Now, old age is as it were the playing out of the drama, the full fatigue of which we should shun, especially when we also feel that we have had more than enough of it.
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.
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