For myself, I never could be persuaded that souls while in mortal bodies were alive, and died directly they left them; nor, in fact, that the soul only lost all intelligence when it left the unintelligent body.
From a philosophical dialogue on old age, Cicero expresses his personal conviction about the nature of the soul's existence.
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