Deliver your citizens from fear

Deliver your citizens from their many fears, and be not willing that dread should beset men who have done no wrong; for even as you dispose others toward you, so you will feel toward them.  Isocrates.  To Nicocles.  Book 2. Section 23.


Closeup of a mourner in The Lamentation originally part of an altarpiece at the 
Benedictine monastery at Sopetran, northeast of Madrid, Spain 1480 CE
Photographed at The Cloisters, a subsidiary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
in New York.

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