"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book."

"It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness."

"The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal."

"While there's life, there's hope."

"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book."

"It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness."

"The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal."

"While there's life, there's hope."

"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book."

"It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness."

"The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal."

"While there's life, there's hope."

"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book."

"It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness."

"The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal."

"While there's life, there's hope."

"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book."

"It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness."

"The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal."

"While there's life, there's hope."

"My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything bad which Nature makes inevitable."

"O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life."