What then is worth being valued? To be received with clapping of hands? No. Neither must we value the clapping of tongues, for the praise which comes from the many is a clapping of tongues. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 6.
Image: Joaquin Phoenix as the Roman emperor Commodus in the 2000 film, Gladiator, courtesy of DreamWorks and Universal Studios.
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