There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated by a combination of rights. And by this definition it appears that a multitude of men may be just as tyrannical as a single despot and indeed this is the most odious of all tyrannies, since no monster can be more barbarous than the mob, which assumes the name and mask of the people.