Splendid in their nakedness, aware of their beauty and power, they can befriend, seduce or even destroy us, mere human mortals, in the blink of an eye.
The Stoics agree that the human soul is mortal, but they also take it that it can and does survive the person's death — that is, its separation from the perceptible body.
For example, the sentence If Socrates is human and mortal, then he is mortal.
For example: since humans hereabouts, qua humans, are mortal, then if there are humans anywhere, they too are mortal" (§4, xxxiii 24 32).
In a deduction (e.g., all humans are mortal; Socrates is human; therefore, Socrates is mortal), the truth of the premises logically requires the truth of the conclusion.
Art! — and we are human, and mortal, and inevitably we have to choose.
But the others, especially Mr. Gomes, carry the ballet's more human and mortal feelings.
We could imagine what it might have been like in a time of turmoil for a woman to go through immense suffering, a woman who was human and mortal before she became the exalted figure to whom we prayed.
None questioned "What mysteries we are, human, vampire, mortal, that we can love and hate simultaneously, and that emotions of all sorts might not parade for what they are not".
