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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

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