What constitutes true friendship? Should we fear old age, or does it perhaps offer advantages? What awaits us after death? Is there an existence beyond earthly life? Cicero has addressed these questions in various writings, which still resonate with everyone even after 2000 years. This volume, previously only available in the Reclam Library, provides key texts from the thinker and statesman on these topics in translation: the dialogues "Laelius on Friendship," "Cato on Old Age," and "Scipio's Dream," along with the famous passage from Cicero's work on the state.