Excellence is a difficult struggle, but when the struggle is completed rightly it leaves a man, even when he dies, the enviable ornament of renown. Bacchylides. Epinicians. Ode 1.
Image: Statue of a prince or dynast without crown, traditionally thought to be a Seleucid prince, maybe Attalus II of Pergamon Bronze Greek Hellenistic era, 3rd-2nd centuries BCE photographed at the Palazzo Massimo, Rome, Italy.
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