Their image of hell was a man called Sisyphus, doomed for eternity to keep rolling the same boulder up a hill, only to see it roll back down and have to start again.
Sub specie aeternitatis This means, translated from the Latin, 'under the aspect of eternity' — a memorable phrase from the Ethics, published in 1677 by the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza.
They'll dig long tunnels with small holes in which they'll place casks of nuclear waste then backfill the tunnels with clay to be left for an eternity.
Any man can fight the battles of just one day; it is only when you or I add the burdens of those two awful eternities — Yesterday and Tomorrow that we break down.
It's this small very nice temple with the pine cone on top, which is a symbol of eternity because, of course, his memory is lasting for centuries after his death.