Nothing in the world can be more insufferable than one of Fortune's fools. Indeed we may observe that men, formerly affable in their manners, become changed by military rank, by power, and by prosperity, spurn their old-time friends and revel in the new. M. Tullius Cicero. De Amictia. Laelius on friendship. Section 54.
Image: Emperor Commodus as Hercules and Gladiator by Peter Paul Rubens, 1599-1600. (PD) Courtesy of The Leiden Collection.
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