Cicero: “For old men who are reasonable and neither cross-grained nor churlish find old age tolerable enough: whereas unreason…”

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!

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.

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…