Cicero: “And it is a great man's duty in troublous times to single out the guilty for punishment, to spare the many, and in every…”

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

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 puts a limit to living as to everything else.

I don't wish to depreciate life, as many men and good philosophers have often done; nor do I regret having lived, for I have done so in a way that lets me think that I was not born in vain.