See how soon everything is forgotten, and look at the chaos of infinite time on each side of the present, and the emptiness of applause, and the changeableness and want of judgement in those who pretend to give praise, and the narrowness of the space within which it is circumscribed. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 4.
Image: Justinian's troops led by Belisarius and Mundus kill 30,000 rioters at the hippodrome of Constantinople courtesy of Pinterest and historycollection.com.
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