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...But the fact that it will die, makes it more precious; and once we have known it, we are no longer irretrievably trapped and exiled within the self.

Caesar Augustus

obsequious

... erotic love is the most unselfish of all the varieties; it seeks to become one with another, and hence to escape the self. This kind of love is the first to die, failing as the body that carries it fails; and for that reason, it has been thought by many to be the basest of the varieties...

Caesar Augustus

The memories of men are short.
Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso to Tiberius Claudius Nero, in Rhodes (3 B.C.)


irascible
supine


Julia seducing Jullus Antonius, he retracted. Powerful move

Julia, the promiscuous

One looks at maps, and does not truly apprehend the extent and variety of the world. It is a new sort of education, the gaining of which does not require a master. Indeed, if one travels enough, the pupil may become the master

Strabo of Amasia to Nicolaus of Damascus (43 BC)

Athenodorus

A man may live like a fool for a year, and become wise in a day.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (42 BC)

we know a lot, yet we understand little. -Quintus Salvidienus Rufus

the end that I discover at last is not the end that I conceived at first. For every solution entails new choices, and every choice made poses new problems to which solutions must be found, and so on and on - Gaius Cilnius Maecenas

Plato's theory of anamnesis—that souls were immortal, knowledge was innate, and learning just was a process of rediscovering that which you had forgotten.

Dialetheia

Life is an activity that’s got to be sustained. You have to fight for it. Otherwise it’s no life at all. That’s just it. It’s just an impulse. - Alice

-encounter with Kripke

saved by Elspeth from the Weaver girl

Death is change.

Living and dying are two sides of the same coin. It makes more sense to conceptualize souls as continuously flowing from one world to another than to think everything that ever lived is forever accruing in an underworld tomb.

meeting the 4 victims of fire caused by then Prof Grimes' negligence.
They are scared to be reincarnated. It will lose their identity