The Death of Marcus Aurelius

The Death of Marcus Aurelius

Monday, October 25, 2021

Sayings of Heraclitus 51


Men allow themselves to be deceived as Homer was, who yet was wiser than all the Greeks; for some boys killing lice deceived him saying, "What we see and catch we leave behind; what we neither see nor catch we take with us."

IMAGE: Adriaen Brouwer, The Delousing (c. 1630)



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