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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
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... 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...
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... 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...
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The memories of men are short.
Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso to Tiberius Claudius Nero, in Rhodes (3 B.C.)
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Julia seducing Jullus Antonius, he retracted. Powerful move
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Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso to Tiberius Claudius Nero, in Rhodes (3 B.C.)
irascible
supine
Julia seducing Jullus Antonius, he retracted. Powerful move
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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)
— Jan 26, 2026 09:30AM
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)
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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
— Jan 24, 2026 10:38AM
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
