Throughout all your life show that you value truth so highly that your word is more to be trusted than the oaths of other men. Isocrates. To Nicocles. Speech 2. Section 22.
Image: La Bocca della Verità , The Mouth of Truth, an ancient mask in pavonazzetto marble , walled into the pronaos of the church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin in Rome, Italy since 1632. It is thought to be an ancient Roman manhole cover. Manholes, in Ancient Rome, often showed the effigy of a river divinity that "swallows" rainwater. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Phyrexian.
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