“It was a great deed to conquer Carthage, but a greater deed to conquer death.”
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXIV: On despising death
“In every age a few individuals do find The Great Way. They do conquer death by regenerating and restoring their bodies to the Realm of Permanence.”
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Harold W. Percival
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Thinking and Destiny
Source: Thinking and Destiny (1946), Ch. 11, The Great Way, p. 699
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