/lit/ - Literature

>Cicero says that to philosophize is no other thing than for a man to prepare himself for death: which is the reason that study and contemplation does in some sort withdraw our souls from us and take it away from the body, which is a sort of training for death; or else it is, that all the wisdom and talk of the world, does in the end resolve upon this point, to teach us not to fear death.

Shakespeare loved him and read him through Florio's English translation.