Cicero: “Thus in the stadium of life, it is not unfair for anyone to seek to obtain what is needful for his own advantage, but he…”

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.

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

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…

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