WHAT is truth? said jesting Pilate,and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be, that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits, which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them, as was in those of the ancients.
Extinctus amabitur idem.
The same man that was envied while he lived, shall be loved when he is gone.
Nunc Dimmitis
A brief hymn of praise found in Luke 2:29–32, also known as the Song of Simeon. The Lord promised Simeon he would see the Messiah before he died. When Mary and Joseph presented the baby Jesus, he uttered “Nunc dimittis servum tuum, Domine, secundum verbum tuum, in pace.” Now, Master, you can let your servant go in peace, just as you promised.
Qui finem vitæ extremum inter munera ponat naturæ.
Who accounts the close of life as one of the benefits of nature?