The
words which were formerly familiar are now antiquated: so also the
names of those who were famed of old, are now in a manner antiquated,
Camillus, Caeso, Volesus, Leonnatus, and a little after also Scipio
and Cato, then Augustus, then also Hadrian and Antoninus. For all
things soon pass away and become a mere tale, and complete oblivion
soon buries them. And I say this of those who have shone in a
wondrous way. For the rest, as soon as they have breathed out their
breath, they are gone, and no man speaks of them. And, to conclude
the matter, what is even an eternal remembrance? A mere nothing. What
then is that about which we ought to employ our serious pains? This
one thing, thoughts just, and acts social, and words which never lie,
and a disposition which gladly accepts all that happens, as
necessary, as usual, as flowing from a principle and source of the
same kind.
(podcast episode) (original Greek)
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