For nothing delights so much as the examples of the virtues, when they are exhibited in the morals of those who live with us. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 6.
Note: Perhaps Marcus Aurelius was thinking of his wife since one of the other people he lived with was his son, Commodus!
Image: Faustina the Younger, wife and maternal cousin of Marcus Aurelius, 2nd century CE at the Antalya Archeological Museum, Turkey courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Ad Meskens.
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