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Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.
Marcus Aurelius • Meditations
‘I have given them empire without limit’ (imperium sine fine), Jupiter prophesies for the Romans in Virgil’s Aeneid, national epic, instant classic and a book which landed straight on the school curriculum in Augustan Rome. It still remains (just) on the modern Western curriculum 2,000 years later.
Mary Beard • SPQR
Happy Ides of March, RIP (rest in pieces) Caesar, you should've thought before burning down the Library of Alexandria
Aeneas and more
Mary Beard • SPQR
The German troops had a saying about him: Where Rommel is, there is the front.
Ryan Holiday • The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
Consul Varro, for example, was known to be proud and a bit impetuous.
Richard Rumelt • Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters
CICERO MAY WELL have been sitting in the senate on the Ides of March 44 BCE when Caesar was assassinated, an eyewitness to a messy and almost bungled murder. A gang of twenty or so senators crowded round Caesar on the pretext of handing him a petition. One backbencher gave the cue for the attack by kneeling at the dictator’s feet and pulling on his
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