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Card #c307IR // #c307Verbatim excerpt
For all those who have preserved, assisted, and enlarged their Fatherland, a particular place in Heaven is assigned, where the blessed enjoy everlasting life.

— Source: Somnium Scipionis (Cicero (Vol. V, with L.O. essay))

[Use when]

When a culture pays eternal status for state-preservation work.

[Why it matters]

Afterlife real estate is allocated by civic service — patriotism as soteriology.

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