Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

Are we assured that there are two things which lead men to believe in the Gods, as we have already stated? What are they? One is the argument about the soul, w…

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself…

'To make that long, last donkey-ride between the pikeman and the stake, to hear the shouting and the chant of hypocrites, to be a spectacle for animals in huma…

By dying young, I shall escape great sufferings. I had not qualities or talents to make my way very well in the world: I should have been continually at fault.

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.