[26] ‘A man spoke with me today about accepting a priesthood of Augustus.31 I told him not to touch it. “You will lay out a lot of money for little in return.”’ [27] ‘But the clerk will add my name to public contracts.’ ‘Are you planning to be there every time a contract is signed, so you can announce to the assembled, “That’s my name he’s writing down there”? [28] Even if you can attend these signing ceremonies now, what will you do when you die?’ ‘But my name will survive me.’ ‘Carve it in stone and it will survive you just as well. Outside Nicopolis, though, no one is going to remember
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nothing really that matter, position, carved names, crown. iya just as it is, nothing really special, it's just our mind thqt make it special
