Cicero: “For he would seek to escape from his loneliness and to find some one to share his studies; he would wish to teach, as…”

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

Oh glorious day when I shall set out to join that heavenly conclave and company of souls, and depart from the turmoil and impurities of this world!

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

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.