Cicero: “Nor is it the body alone that must be supported, but the intellect and soul much more.”

For nature puts a limit to living as to everything else.

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

But if I am wrong in thinking the human soul immortal, I am glad to be wrong; nor will I allow the mistake which gives me so much pleasure to be wrested from me as long as I live.

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…