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So many great nobles, things, administrations, So many high chieftains, so many brave nations, So many proud princes, and power so splendid, In a moment, a twinkling, all utterly ended. - De Contemptu Mundi [Change] Where's Caesar gone now, in command high and able? Or Xerxes the splendid, complete in his table? Or Tully, with powers of eloquence ample? Or Aristotle, of genius the highest example? - De Contemptu Mundi, (translation by Abraham Coles) [Fame]
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