The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
We are all working for the immortality of the human consciousness.
For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.
Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.
Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.
Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality.
The first requisite for immortality is death.
If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.