Keep thyself then simple, good, pure, serious, free from affectation, a friend of justice, a worshiper of the gods, kind, affectionate, strenuous in all proper acts. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 6.
Image: Thusnelda (wife of Arminius) at the Triumph of Germanicus by Karl von Piloty, 1873 courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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