Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago

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“I don't think that there is anything more worth doing in the world than to look around you at the things that are truly beautiful and important and just true in general, and think about them and contemplate them and try to live by them. And I also don't think that any of the most important questions to me, at least, have not been posed by people who have been alive thousands of years ago and left their thoughts and their perceptions of the world behind. I think it's a privilege, really, even if it is a little crazy, to follow the paths that they already left behind to navigate the world today. It can be difficult in the world we live in right now to think that all our problems are new and that we are uniquely complicated and uniquely lost. And then you open up Cicero at the death of the Republic, or Livy looking back at the history of the Roman Empire, and it’s not true. You can learn so much about what we live in today and about how to react to that from what they already learned before you. It would be really very silly not to take the chance.” - Anna Fernandes (Latin, 24’)