Believe that you will enjoy the utmost happiness, not if you rule over the whole world at the price of fears and dangers and baseness, but rather if you set your heart on moderate achievements and fail in none of them. Isocrates. To Nicocles. Speech 2. Section 26.
Image: Fresco of a contemplative woman writing on a wax tablet from the Villa di Giulia Felice in Pompeii Roman 1st century CE photographed at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, Italy.
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