Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
SallustIf the transmigration of a soul takes place into a rational being, it simply becomes the soul of that body. But if the soul migrates into a brute beast, it follows the body outside, as a guardian spirit follows a man. For there could never be a rational soul in an irrational being.
Sallust