A spider is proud when it has caught a fly, and another when he has caught a poor hare, and another when he has taken a little fish in a net, and another when he has taken wild boars, and another when he has taken bears, and another when he has taken Sarmatians.
Are not these robbers, if you examine their opinions?
—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 10.10
IMAGE: William Allan, Tartar Robbers Dividing Spoil (1817)
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