All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.
Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.
It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and ordered movements the appearances concerning the movements of the wandering heavenly bodies could be preserved.
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed.
Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.