When one sets for himself the highest standard of conduct, it is probable that in his relation to others he will approve only of those who exhort him to virtue. Isocrates. To Demonicus. Speech 1. Section 45.
Image: Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (1844) by Eugène Delacroix courtesy of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Wikimedia Commons.
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