Pleasure from ill-gotten gain

How many pleasures have been enjoyed by robbers, patricides, tyrants.  Marcus Aurelius.  Meditations.  Book 6.


Image: A bronze protome of Medusa from one of Caligula's Nemi Ships at the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme in Rome.  Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Miguel Hermoso Cuesta.  Some scholars think Caligula had a hand in the death of his adoptive father, Tiberius.  

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