Cicero: “Let us have the courage to give advice with candour.”

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.

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.

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…