If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.
We can't all do everything.
Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?
All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river. . . . In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re-visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies.
Fear betrays unworthy souls.
Easy is the descent to hell; all night long, all day, the doors of dark Hades stand open; but to retrace the path; to come out again to the sweet air of Heaven - there is the task, there is the burden.