Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 3.
Image: Corbridge Lanx, a silver tray depicting a shrine to Apollo (4th century CE), found on the bank of river Tyne, at Corbridge, England thought to be part of a hoard, now in the British Museum, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Michel wal.
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