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Honour (n.) paid to the illustrious dead would not last if their souls did nothing to keep our memory of them alive.
Piety (n.) keeps the memory of the dead by the loyalty of one's own life, whether or not their souls survive.
Sleep (n.) is the thing most like death, yet it is in sleepers that souls most clearly reveal their divine nature.
Soul (n.) was never seen even in life; we knew it was in the body only from what it did.
Soul (n.) becomes wise only when, liberated from all corporeal admixture, it has begun to be pure and undefiled.
Soul (n.) alone is invisible both when present and when departing; every other element goes back to the place from which it came.