The safety and security of truth

For there is both safety and security in speaking the truth with knowledge about our greatest and dearest concerns to those who are both wise and dear. But to speak when one doubts himself and is seeking while he talks is a fearful and slippery venture. Plato. The Republic. Book 5. Section 451a.

Chariot Mount with Two Orators and a Grammarian Copper Alloy Provincial Roman Gaul or
Byzantine 300-500 CE photographed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, New York.