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Fame is fickle. If the media turn against me, I will just have more time in the library. Not bad as a fate.

if they are bearded, they are after 117 CE. This

(those who do not exist cannot regret their non-existence,

If I have played my part well, then give me applause.

It is a dangerous myth that we are better historians than our predecessors. We are not.

If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine. I'll call it human.

Polybius more than 150 years earlier,

Action without study is fatal ...

Hunting, bathing, gaming, laughing: that's living (venari lavare ludere ridere occest vivere).