Tacitus

Tacitus (c. 56/57-117)

"The chief duty of a friend is not to walk behind the corpse pointlessly grieving, but to remember his desires and carry out his instructions."

• The Annals of Imperial Rome (chapter 5) by Tacitus, translated by Michael Grant. New York: Penguin Classics, 1996.

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