Cicero: “Still, to debar foreigners from enjoying the advantages of the city is altogether contrary to the laws of humanity.”

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…

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

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.