Cicero: “Fire and water themselves, to use a common expression, are not of more universal use than friendship.”

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

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

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.

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