[Be] easy in conversation, and ... agreeable without any offensive affectation. Extracted from Marcus Aurelius' observations about his father, Antoninus Pius. Meditations. Book 1.
Image: Effigy of a reclining man on the lid of an Etruscan funerary monument 3rd-2nd century BCE, Terracotta, that I photographed at The Louvre in 2008.
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