If you're interested in ancient history, as I am, I suggest that you read books written by Robert Harris. I started with "Pompeii" and then I read "Imperium". Now I'm reading "Conspirata" (both of these novels are fiction based on the life of Ciccero, B.C. 63.) Early in this latest book there is a quote.
"Surely the greatest mercy granted us by Providence is our ignorance of the future. Imagine if we knew the outcome of our hopes and plans, or could see the manner in which we are doomed to die - how ruined our lives would be ! Instead we live on dumbly from day to day as happily as animals. But all things must come to dust eventually. No human being, no system, no age is impervious to this law, everything beneath the stars will perish; the hardest rock will be worn away. Nothing endures but words.
" Hummmmm. perhaps "Twitter" and "Blogs" ???
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