Wise men should excel laymen and be better than they, not in fields neglected by everybody else, but where all are rivals.

It is fitting that those who lay claim to learning and profess to be wise men should excel laymen and be better than they, not in fields neglected by everybody else, but where all are rivals. Isocrates. Helen. Speech 10. Section 9.

Image: Baroque marble imaginary portrait bust of Seneca, by an anonymous sculptor of the 17th century at the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Jean-Pol Grandmont.