Quotes From Meditations By Marcus Aurelius (2)
Meditations is a remarkable collection of personal reflections by the Stoic Roman Emperor, Marcus Aurelius, who reigned from 161 to 180 AD. Quote: … that the lo...
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Quotes From Meditations By Marcus Aurelius (1)
From Book Two: Finally, the intelligence. Think of it this way: You are an old man. Stop allowing your mind to be a slave, to be jerked about by selfish impulse...
Quotes From the Twelve Caesars (4)
This will be my last post on Julius Caesar (the first of the twelve Caesars). We’ll be moving on to Augustus soon enough! Julius Caesar was an enigmatic r...
Quote From the Twelve Caesars (3)
Julius Caesar was certainly a man of paradoxes, both in his own time, and in the annals of history. Suetonius writes in The Twelve Caesars of Caesar’s app...
Quote From the Twelve Caesars (2)
The year was 49 BC. Caesar had a choice to make. Start a civil war in the Roman Republic or obey the orders of the Senate to give up his armies. Caesar was appa...
Quote: The Twelve Caesars
This is from Chapter One of Suetonius’ The Twelve Caesars. I’m reading the translation by Robert Graves, one of my favorite poets. Here is the quote...
Diocletian: Dude That Saved the Empire
I have a rather long commute to work. Forty-five minutes to work, and forty-five minutes back home. An hour and a half in sum. That’s a lot of time to ...