Look to what ought to be done

 [Be] a man who looks to what ought to be done, not to the reputation which is got by a man's acts.  Marcus Aurelius observing his father, the emperor Antoninus Pius.  Meditations.  Book 1.



Image. Construction of a Roman aqueduct by Decandence, 2004, courtesy of http://www.ancientvine.com/lastmile.html


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