Roman Era Quotes

“All men are in the same state from their last day forward as they were before their first day, and neither body nor mind has any more sensation after death than it had before birth. But wishful thinking prolongs itself into the future and falsely invents for itself a life that continues beyond death, sometimes by giving the soul immortality or a change of shape , sometimes by according feeling to those below, worshiping spirits and deifying one who has already ceased to be even a man.”
― Pliny the Elder, The Natural History of Pliny