Well, if you prefer unfair comparisions, then sure: there are fewer contemporary sources about one of the lesser known Roman emperors than there are about Jesus of fucking Nazareth.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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