The virtue of men in office is briefly this, to do their country as much good as they can, or in any case no harm that they can avoid. Thucydides quoting Nicias before the invasion of Sicily. The History of the Pelopponesian War. Book 6.
Image: Disagreeable-looking elderly togate man 120 CE photographed at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri.
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