For 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?

Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power.

Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.