Those sharp-witted men, either seers or men inflated with pride, where are they?...All ephemeral, dead long ago. Some indeed have not been remembered even for a short time, and others have become the heroes of fables, and again others have disappeared even from fables. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 8.
Image: Mithradates VI of Pontus as Heracles, Roman imperial period (1st century CE), at The Louvre in Paris, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor O. Mustafin.
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