Cicero: “Accordingly they never possess that most beautiful and most spontaneous friendship which must be sought solely for…”

For nature has given us a place of entertainment, not of residence.

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.

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

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