A great many people do many things that seem to be inspired more by a spirit of ostentation than by heart-felt kindness. Marcus Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. Book 1. Section 44.
Image: Cleopatra by American artist William Wetmore Story, 1869. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Interesting that the picture of Story's sculpture at The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a necklace.
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