The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.
Marcus Tullius CiceroNature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.
Marcus Tullius CiceroFor if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?
Marcus Tullius Cicero