You should bear in mind and not pay heed to those who gratify you for the moment, while caring nothing for the future, nor to those who profess to love the people, but are in fact the bane of the whole state. Isocrates. On The Peace. Speech 8. Section 121.
Image: Nero and Poppea on horseback by Isaiah from Pisa, 1458-60 CE, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Sailko.
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