Cicero: “For how few will be found who can refrain from wrong-doing, if assured of the power to keep it an absolute secret and to…”

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.

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.

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.