Brief is man’s life and small the nook of the earth where he lives; brief, too, is the longest posthumous fame buoyed only by a succession of poor human beings who will very soon die and who know little of themselves, much less of someone who died long ago

Brief is man’s life and small the nook of the earth where he lives; brief, too, is the longest posthumous fame buoyed only by a succession of poor human beings who will very soon die and who know little of themselves, much less of someone who died long ago.