The relationship between Boristhenes and me was one of mathematical precision: he obeyed me as if I were his brain, not his master. Did I ever succeed in making a man do the same thing? […] My horse replaced the thousand notions related to the title, the function and the name, which turn human friendship into something complicated, by the only knowledge of my exact weight of man.
Memoirs of Hadrian
ANIMA VAGULA BLANDULA
Marguerite Yourcenar
ANIMA VAGULA BLANDULA
Marguerite Yourcenar
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