Malini

“A certain Spartan, whose name hasn’t even been passed down, despised death so greatly that when he was being led to execution after his condemnation by the ephors, he maintained a relaxed and joyous expression. To an enemy’s challenge – ‘Is this how you mock the laws of Lycurgus?’ – he answered, ‘On the contrary, I give great thanks to him, for he decreed a punishment that I can pay without taking out a loan or juggling debts.’101 O worthy man of Sparta! His spirit was so great that it seems he must have been an innocent man condemned to die. There have been many such in our own country.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Living and Dying Well

“For old age is respected only if it defends itself, maintains its rights, submits to no one, and rules over its domain until its last breath.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“What can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself?”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Treatises on Friendship and Old Age

“Those who lack within themselves the means for living a blessed and happy life will find any age painful.
- How to grow old: ancient wisdom for the second half of life.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero