Many great houses have been ruined by flatterers. Isocrates. On the Peace. Speech 8. Section 4.
Image: The Triumph of Pompey by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, 1765, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Note: Here it looks like the elephants pulling Pompey's triumphal chariot are actually going to fit through the triumphal arch. Of course, they didn't.
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