Those who have no care for their own state of mind are unwittingly disparaging the means of attaining at the same time greater wisdom and greater well-being

Those who have no care for their own state of mind are unwittingly disparaging the means of attaining at the same time greater wisdom and greater well-being. Isocrates. On The Peace. Speech 8. Section 32.

Image: Belisarius by François-André Vincent, 1776. Belisarius, a Byzantine general reduced to begging on the street, recognized by a Roman soldier.  Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.