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I want to do the right thing, but often I don’t know just what the right thing is. Every day I know I have come short of what I would like to have done. Yet as the years pass and I see the very world itself, with its oceans and mountains and plains, as something unfinished, a peculiar little satisfaction hunts out the corners of my heart. Sunsets and evening shadows find me regretful at task’s undone, but sleep and the dawn and the air of the morning touch me with freshening hopes. Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don’t worry about my destiny.

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Sextus Afranius Burrus

Sextus Afranius Burrus

Sextus Afranius Burrus, Praetorian Prefect, was Nero's tutor and later advisor. Burrus was born in Gallia Narbonensis. He was chosen by Agrippina the Younger as Prefect in order to secure her son Nero's place as emperor after the death of Claudius. For the first eight years of Nero's rule of the Roman Empire he and Seneca the Younger helped maintain a stable government. He acquiesced to Nero's murder of Agrippina the Younger but he lost his influence over Nero anyway. He died in 62, some say from poison.

The Roman cognomen "Burrus" is the Latin version of the name Pyrrhus, the Macedonian king.

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