Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Eternity

Quotes about: Eternity

• There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Eternity, Ageless, Eternal

• Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Time, Soul, Lasts

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1839). “The Orations”, p.261

• For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Believe, Order, Opposites

• The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Beauty, Nature, World

• For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Errors, One Day, Eternity

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.2708, Delphi Classics

• For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Change, Time

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