Sentences with phrase «ignore earthly rewards»

Scipio turns his eyes back to the earth, and Africanus exhorts him to see how insignificant worldly glory is in comparison to the celestial realms, or even to the vast uninhabitable regions of the globe, or to the unimaginable immensity of the Great Year of the cosmic aeon, and then tells him to fix his mind always on heavenly things, to ignore earthly rewards and earthly censure alike, and to be guided only by virtue.