It is perhaps very difficult to find in all of Roman history a political man who, like Hadrian, encloses in his thoughts a meaning and a concept of life, in which together, and almost organically and perfectly, the the ideal of Greek life and that of Roman life, the pagan soul and the Christian soul, the spiritual tendencies of the old age and those of the new age; a man who has equally united in himself the multiplicity of the most varied talents. (chap. 3, pp. 124-125)

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "It is perhaps very difficult to find in all of Roman history a political man who, like Hadrian, encloses in his thoughts a meaning and a concept of life, in which together, and almost organically and perfectly, the the ideal of Greek life and that of Roman life, the pagan soul and the Christian soul, the spiritual tendencies of the old age and those of the new age; a man who has equally united in himself the multiplicity of the most varied talents. (chap. 3, pp. 124-125)" in the context of "" to mean that wisdom is timeless.