A while ago I read a quote by a Greek philosopher on eternal life, "If there is nothing before I was born and nothing after then the bit in between must be eternal." Does anyone recognise it?

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Aristotle...Neither that which always is, therefore, nor that which always is not is either generated or destructible. And clearly whatever is generated or destructible is not eternal. If it were, it would be at once capable of always being and capable of not always being, but it has already been shown that this is impossible. Surely then whatever is ungenerated and in being must be eternal, and whatever is indestructible and in being must equally be so. (I use the words ‘ungenerated’ and ‘indestructible’ in their proper sense, ‘ungenerated’ for that which now is and could not at any previous time have been truly said not to be; ‘indestructible’ for that which now is and cannot at any future time be truly said not to be.)....taken from the below website. http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/ari/oth/oth12.htm Aug 20 07, 12:11 AM