The Transience of the past and the future

Consider ... the boundless abyss of the past and of the future in which all things disappear. How then is he not a fool who is puffed up with such things...  Marcus Aurelius.  Meditations.  Book 5.


Image: Statue of the Roman Emperor Domitian (r. 81–96), from Vaison-la-Romaine, France, courtesy of Flickr user maarjaara.

 

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