Men who want to do some good in the world must banish utterly from their interests all vain speculations and all activities which have no bearing on our lives. Isocrates. Antidosis. Speech 15. Section 269.
Image: Cornelia Africana, Mother of the Gracchi by Noël Hallé, 1779, at the Fabre Museum in Montpellier, France courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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