If you do a thing that ought to be done don't shun being seen doing it

When you have decided that a thing ought to be done, and are doing it, never shun being seen doing it, even though the multitude should be likely to judge the matter amiss. For if you are not acting rightly, shun the act itself, if rightly, however, why fear misplaced censure? Epictetus. The Golden Sayings. Book 2. Number 172.

Image: A composite I created depicting Fabius Maximus pondering the devastating losses at the battle of Cannae from a painting of The Death of Aemilius Paullus by John Trumbull, 1773, (courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery and Wikimedia Commons) and an image of a statue of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus (The Delayer) by J. B. Hagenauer, at the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor schurl50.