MARCUS: Death is no annihilation, carrying off and blotting out everything, but rather, if I may so describe it, a change of abode, and an alteration in our manner of life.
[Mortem non interitum esse omnia tollentem atque delentem, sed quandam quasi migrationem commutationemque vitae.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 1, ch. 12 (1.12) / sec. 27 (1.27) (45 BC) [ed. Harbottle (1897)]
(Source)
On the belief, from antiquity, in the soul and survival of it beyond death.
(Source (Latin)). Alternate translations:Death was not an Annihilation, but a removal and change only of Life.
[tr. Wase (1643)]Death was not so entire a destruction as to leave nothing remining, but a certain transmigration, as it were, and change of life.
[tr. Main (1824)]Death was not a destruction, involving a total and absolute demolition, but rather a certain migration and change of life.
[tr. Otis (1839)]Death was not so entire a destruction as wholly to abolish and destroy everything, but rather a kind of transmigration, as it were, and change of life.
[tr. Yonge (1853)]Death is not a catastrophe that takes away and blots out everything, but is, so to speak, a migration and a change of life.
[tr. Peabody (1886)]Death was not a destruction which removed and obliterated everything, but only a migration, as it were, and an exchange of one life for another.
[tr. Black (1889)]
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