Somnium Scipionis, Part XIII

“But so that you, Africanus, be swifter to defend the state, have thus: that for all who have preserved, helped, enlarged the fatherland, there is a certain definite place in heaven, where the blessed enjoy everlasting time; for there is indeed nothing which happens in the lands more pleasing to that chief god, who rules the whole universe, than the gatherings and meetings of men united by law, which are called states; the rulers and preservers of these, having set out from here, return to this place.”