The myth of Er suggests that we did choose our parents, and
the idea that all that we do on earth -- also suggested in the lines toward the
end of Goethe's
Faust "Es kann die Spur von meinen Erdetagen/Nicht in
Äonen untergehn" (lines 11583-4) -- might be permanent, if not in
"this world", could be termed in contrast to
sic transit gloria
mundi:
sic permanet gloria mundi.
This assumes some such reality as the Zoroastrian daena sub
specie aeternitatis.
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