Emperor Romanos I

Emperor Romanos I (r. 919-944)

"You are here today, tomorrow you will dissolve into dust and ashes."

• From A Synopsis of Byzantine History by John Skylitzes (c. 1040-1101), translated by John Wortley (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

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John Skylitzes

John Skylitzes (Byzantine Historian, 1040-1101 CE)

"Reading provokes recollection; recollection nourishes and expands memory, just as, quite the contrary, negligence and laziness provoke forgetfulness which darkens and confuses the memory of what has happened in the past."

• From John Skylitzes' A Synopsis of Byzantine History (811-1057) translated by John Wortley.

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