There does not exist an art of the kind which can implant sobriety and justice in depraved natures. Isocrates. Against the Sophists. Speech 13. Section 21.
Image: Battle of Constantine and Maxentius (detail of fresco in Vatican Stanze) ca. 1650 by Lazzaro Baldi after Giulio Romano at the University of Edinburgh (PD)
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