It takes a brave and heroic soul to hold as slight what most people think grand and glorious

It takes a brave and heroic soul to hold as slight what most people think grand and glorious. Marcus Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. Book 1. Section 67.

Emperor Tiberius's triumph on a silver skyphos with repoussé decoration, late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE from the Villa della Pisanella at Boscoreale courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Marie-Lan Nguyen