One should do deeds not only great and in the highest degree useful, but extremely arduous and laborious and fraught with danger both to life and to many things that make life worth living. Marcus Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. Book 1. Section 66.
Image: Posthumous portrait of the Roman emperor Hadrian Bronze 140 CE possibly from Egypt at The Louvre courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Marie-Lan Nguyen.
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