Julius Caesar on Memorial Day
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The principal point of their doctrine is that the soul does not die and that after death it passes from one body into another.
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
With regard to their actual course of studies, the main object of all education is, in their opinion, to imbue their scholars with a firm belief in the indestructibility of the human soul, which, according to their belief, merely passes at death from one tenement to another; for by such doctrine alone, they say, which robs death of all its terrors, can the highest form of human courage be developed.