Bear in mind that while base men may be pardoned for acting without principle, since it is on such a foundation that from the first their lives have been built, the good may not neglect virtue without subjecting themselves to rebukes from many quarters. For all men despise less those who do wrong, than those who have claimed to be respectable and yet are in fact no better than the common run. Isocrates. To Demonicus. Section 48.
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| Closeup of a Roman marble sarcophagus 220-230 CE depicting Dionysos on a Panther with the four seasons represented as sturdy youths rather than the traditional women. Photographed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. |
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