We are mad and bereft of our senses, seeing that we plume ourselves upon the deeds of our ancestors and think fit to eulogize our country by dwelling upon the achievements of their time and yet act in no respect like them but do the very opposite. Isocrates. On The Peace. Speech 8. Section 41.
Image: Roman emperor Augustus, 1st century CE, photographed at the Palazzo Massimo in Rome, Italy.
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