"Does life please you? Live on. Does it not? Go from whence you came. No vast wound is necessary; a mere puncture will secure your liberty. It is a bad thing (you say) to be under the necessity of living; but there is no necessity in the case. Thanks be to the gods, nobody can be compelled to live."

"You are a little soul carrying around a corpse."

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Sedibus ut saltem placidis in morte quiescam.

At least in death I’ll find a peaceful haven.

"

"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."

"What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears."

"That the best thing for a man is not to be born, and if already born, to die as soon as possible."

"Weeping I was born, and having wept I die, and I found my living amidst many tears. O tearful, weak, pitiable race of men, dragged under earth and mouldering away!"