Cicero: “Promises are, therefore, sometimes not to be kept; and trusts are not always to be restored.”

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…

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

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.

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