"When a man has superior talents whether for speech or for action, one cannot fairly charge it to anything but fortune, but when a man makes good and temperate use of the power which nature has given him, all the world ought in justice to commend his character." Isocrates. Antidosis. Speech 15. Section 36.
Image: Vespasianus plaster cast at the Pushkin Museum, Moscow after original in the Louvre (L 1261), that was identified as modern art work and removed from collection by Wikimedia Commons contributor Shakko.
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