Receive from friends what are esteemed favors, without being either humbled by them or letting them pass unnoticed. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 1.
Image: Detail crop of Saturnalia by Ernesto Biondi, 1909, in the Buenos Aires Botanical Gardens courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor JanManu (cropped and digitally enhanced). Note: I don't think these reckless revelers were what Marcus Aurelius had in mind, though!
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