there are a lot of really good instances of people reading famous authors from the ancient world and finding out that they’re nowhere near as sophisticated and cool as all the quotes imply, but my favorite personal experience with this is reading the works of early christian philosopher st. augustine and realizing that the dude just. really hated babies
a bunch of people asked for quotes, so here you go. please appreciate that i had to google ‘st augustine baby hate’ to find this
