Death certainly, and life, honor and dishonor, pain and pleasure, all these things equally happen to good men and bad, being things which make us neither better nor worse. Therefore they are neither good nor evil. Marcus Aurelius while serving at Carnuntum. Meditations. Book 2.
Image: A Roman funeral as envisaged by the publishers of the role-playing game Cthulhu Invictus, advertized as horror roleplayhing the the first century CE of the Roman Empire. Here the deceased is shown propped up in a chariot rather than reclining on a funeral bier.
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