If we fall in with the unfortunate, we grieve that we must be compelled, in addition to our own ills, to share in the ills of others. If we encounter those who fare well, our lot is even harder to bear, not because we envy them their prosperity, but because amid the blessings of our neighbors we see more clearly our own miseries. Isocrates. Plataicus. Speech 14. Section 46-47.
Image: Wall fragment with two Roman women 1-75 CE photographed at the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, California.
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