You should not honor that courage which accompanies heedless folly and unseasonable ambition

You should not honor that courage which accompanies heedless folly and unseasonable ambition. Isocrates. Ad Philippum. Letter 2. Section 9.

Image: Detail of a Tapestry depicting the Constantine's Victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge designed by Peter Paul Rubens 1623-1625 CE photographed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Note: "Maxentius and his Praetorians were confronted by the Emperor Constantine in 312 CE at the Battle of Milvian Bridge. While the Praetorians supposedly made a valiant last stand along the Tiber River, they were soundly defeated, and Maxentius was killed. Convinced the Praetorians could no longer be trusted, Constantine disbanded the unit once and for all, reassigned its members to the outskirts of the Empire, and oversaw the destruction of their barracks at the Castra Praetoria." - Evan Andrews, 8 Things You May Not Know About the Praetorian Guard