The more of these things [wealth, luxury, or fame] a man deprives himself of, or... he is deprived of any of them, and the more patiently he endures the loss, to the same degree he is a better man. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 5.
Image: The death of Messalina by Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse, 1916, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Comments
Post a Comment