Echoes through time: Marble and gold
“With close-packed branches and with leaves heaped up and laid sloping they contrived a drainage for even the heaviest rains. Beneath such dwellings, they lived, but they lived in peace. A thatched roof once covered free men; under marble and gold dwells slavery.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) (c. 4 BC – AD 65), Moral letters to Lucilius
Quotations, Sovereign Individual
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