Consider that everything which happens, happens justly, and if thou observest carefully, thou wilt find it to be so. I do not say only with respect to the continuity of the series of things, but with respect to what is just, and as if it were done by one who assigns to each thing its value. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 4.
Image: Youth untying his sandal, so-called “Sandalbinder Hermes”. Left arm and shoulder, right forearm and thigh, part of the chlamys and the plinth are modern restorations; the ploughshare at the base of the rock is a modern addition based on an errouneous identification with L. Quinctius Cincinnatus. The head is ancient but may be nonpertinent to the statue. Pentelic marble (body), Roman copy of the 2nd century CE after a Greek original of the late 4th century BCE from the Theater of Marcellus in Rome, now in The Louvre. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Marie-Lan Nguyen.
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