Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.
Marcus Tullius CiceroAccording to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.
Marcus Tullius CiceroSome men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero