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Quotation from The Republic and The Laws by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“consider your body only, not yourself, as mortal. For it is not your outward form which constitutes your being, but your mind”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (spoken by Africanus the Elder)

The Republic and The Laws, Republic, Book VI (Dream of Scipio), trans. Francis Barham

Portrait of Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Dream's teaching on the immortality of the soul, given to the young Scipio as he looks down on the earth.

Citation: "consider your body only, not yourself, as mortal. For it is not your outward form which constitutes your being, but your mind" — Marcus Tullius Cicero, The Republic and The Laws, Republic, Book VI (Dream of Scipio), trans. Francis Barham. (id cicero-republic-and-laws-q6)

Portrait: Francesco Bartolozzi - Cicero - B1977.14.19547 - Yale Center for British Art, Francesco Bartolozzi, CC0.

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