The bonds of common blood hold men fast through good-will and affection; *55* for it means much to share in common the same family traditions, the same forms of domestic worship, and the same ancestral tombs.
Cicero explains how shared lineage and common traditions strengthen the bonds of goodwill and affection among people.
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But had it not been the case that souls were immortal, it would not have been the souls of all the best men that made the greatest efforts after an immortality of fame.
Again, is there not the fact that the wisest man ever dies with the greatest cheerfulness, the most unwise with the least?
Now, old age is as it were the playing out of the drama, the full fatigue of which we should shun, especially when we also feel that we have had more than enough of it.
Oh glorious day when I shall set out to join that heavenly conclave and company of souls, and depart from the turmoil and impurities of this world!
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