Consider what men are when they are eating, sleeping, generating, easing themselves, and so forth.
Then what kind of men they are when they are imperious and arrogant, or angry and scolding from their elevated place.
But a short time ago to how many they were slaves and for what things; and after a little time consider in what a condition they will be.
—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 10.19
IMAGE: Peter Paul Rubens, A Roman Triumph (c. 1630)
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