[Be] able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess..to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul. Marcus Aurelius upon observing his father, Antoninus Pius. Meditations. Book 1.
Image: An Afternoon's Amusement by Pierre Oliver Joseph Coomans, 1865, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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