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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Death, Memories, Grieving
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Maurice MACKAY (1855). “Select Orations of Marcus T. Cicero: together with the Treatises on Old Age and Friendship. Literally translated by the Rev. Dr. M'Kay ... Second edition”, p.138

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Change, Death, Dying
"Tusculanarum Disputationum". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 49), translated, 45 BC.

I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Death, Home, Quitting

The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Death, Meditation, Philosopher

Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Death, Men, Demand
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Death, Country, Immortality
"Tusculanarum Disputationum". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 15), translated, 45 BC.

The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Death, Lasts, Doe

I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home. [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Death, Home, Inns

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Death, Men, Glory
Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.2321, Delphi Classics

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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Death, Regret, Home

There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Death, Roots, Soul
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1856). “Cicero's Three Books Of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate”, p.254

The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Death, Home, Sight
"On Old Age". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC.

I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead. [Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Death, Wish To Die, Care

For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Death, Courage, Men

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