Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass! - Joseph Addison

Cato Meanwhile we’ll sacrifice to liberty. Remember, O my friends, the laws, the rights, The generous plan of power delivered down, From age to age, by your renowned forefathers, 75 (So dearly bought, the price of so much blood,) Oh let it never perish in your hands! But piously transmit it to your children. Do thou, great liberty, inspire our souls, And make our lives in thy possession happy, 80 Or our deaths glorious in thy just defence.

Cato My life is grafted on the fate of Rome: Would he save Cato? Bid him spare his country.

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