Say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 4.
Image: Detail of Triumph of Pompey by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, 1765, (Before he discovered his team of elephants wouldn't fit through the triumphal arch!) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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