"Nothing can be intelligently accomplished unless first, with full forethought, you reason and deliberate how you ought to direct your own future, what mode of life you should choose, what kind of repute you should set your heart upon, and which kind of honors you should be contented with—those freely granted by your fellow-citizens or those wrung from them against their will." Isocrates. Ad filios Jasonis. Letter 6. Section 9.
Image: "The Emblem of Christ appearing to Constantine" by Peter Paul Rubens 1622 courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Wikimedia Commons. Note: This work is sometimes referred to as "Constantine's Conversion" but Constantine was never baptized into the Christian faith until just before his death and many scholars doubt even that conversion, since it was reported by powerful Christian bishops and not publicly witnessed.
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