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animæ semperque priore relicta Sede novis
Morte carent animæ, semperque priore relicta / Sede novis domibus vivunt habitantque receptæ —Souls are immortal; and admitted, after quitting their first abode, into new homes, they live and dwell in them for ever. Ovid.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

animæ semperque priore relicta Sede novis
[108] This resembles the account which Ovid puts into the mouth of Pythagoras, in the last book of his Metamorphoses, where he makes him say:— Morte carent animæ, semperque priore relicta Sede, novis domibus habitant vivuntque receptæ; Ipse ego, nam memini, Trojani tempora belli, Panthorides Euphorbus eram, cui pectore quondam Hæsit in adverso gravis hasta minoris
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

animae semperque priore relicts Sede novis
Pythagoras borrowed the metempsychosis from the Egyptians; but it has since been received by several nations, and particularly by our Druids: “Morte carent animae; semperque, priore relicts Sede, novis domibus vivunt, habitantque receptae.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

and sometimes pretty reckless spreeing nights
My idea gained from army men, is that the drunkenness (and sometimes pretty reckless spreeing, nights,) ceased before he came East to be Lt. General.
— from Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) by Mark Twain

animae semperque priore relicta Sede novis
[48d] Upon the face of earth .—These lines occur in a poem of Taliesin where he gives an account of himself as existing in various places, and contemporary with various events in the early eras of the world’s history—an echo of the teachings of Pythagoras: Morte carent animae; semperque priore relicta Sede, novis habitant domibus vivuntque receptae.
— from The Visions of the Sleeping Bard by Ellis Wynne

animæ sempérque priore relicta Sede nouis
But alas, this integritie continued not long among his successors, for vnto the immortalitie of the soule, they added, that after death it went into another bodie, (of which translation Ouid saith; Morte carent animæ, sempérque priore relicta Sede, nouis domibus viuunt habitántque receptæ.)
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

animæ semperque priore relictâ Sede novis
Corpora sive rogus flammâ, seu tabe vetustas Abstulerit, mala posse pati non ulla putetis Morte carent animæ: semperque priore relictâ Sede, novis domibus habitant vivuntque receptæ . .
— from Reincarnation: A Study in Human Evolution by Théophile Pascal


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