That which is peculiar to the good man, to be pleased and content with what happens, and with the thread which is spun for him and not to defile the divinity which is planted in his breast, nor disturb it by a crowd of images, but to preserve it tranquil, following it obediently as a god, neither saying anything contrary to the truth, nor doing anything contrary to justice. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 3.
Image: Apollo wearing a laurel or myrtle wreath, a white peplos and a red himation and sandals, seated on a lion-pawed diphros, pouring a libation. Tondo of an Attic white-ground kylix attributed to the Pistoxenos Painter (or the Berlin Painter, or Onesimos). From a tomb (probably that of a priest) in Delphi at the Archaeological Museum of Delphi courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Fingalo.
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