Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 3.
Image: Byzantine mosaic from the 5th century CE from the Great Palace Museum of Istanbul. (I was thinking of Commodus!) Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Gryffindor.
Image: Byzantine mosaic from the 5th century CE from the Great Palace Museum of Istanbul. (I was thinking of Commodus!) Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Gryffindor.
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