Cicero: “We shall, therefore, work to the best advantage in that rôle to which we are best adapted.”

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.

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

But if I am wrong in thinking the human soul immortal, I am glad to be wrong; nor will I allow the mistake which gives me so much pleasure to be wrested from me as long as I live.

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!