“Where have they gone, the brilliant, the insightful ones, the proud?”

— Marcus Aurelius , book Meditations

Hays translation
VIII, 25
Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book VIII

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Marcus Aurelius 400

Emperor of Ancient Rome 121–180

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