Cicero: “But (2) confidence is reposed in men who are just and true--that is, good men--on the definite assumption that their…”

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

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.

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!

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.