“About fame… Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.”

— Marcus Aurelius , book Meditations

VII, 34
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII

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Emperor of Ancient Rome 121–180

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