If the exaltation of spirit seen in times of danger and toil is devoid of justice and fights for selfish ends instead of for the common good, it is a vice. Marcus Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. Book 1. Section 62.
Image: La mort d'Alcibiades by Philippe Chéry, 1791, at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Rochelle courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Michaël Martin
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