"Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?'"
Classical Antiquity (~100 BCE)
(media.piefed.social)
Funny enough, there was some contact between the Empire and Eastern religions in the 2nd century AD, including this sculpture of a Roman soldier whose hairstyle is suggested to imply conversion to Buddhism.
