“Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!” — Who Said It? Joseph Addison, Cato (1712)

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!

— Joseph Addison · Cato

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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.
Curse all his virtues! they 've undone his country.
From hence, let fierce contending nations know What dire effects from civil discord flow.
My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?

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