Outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason, and when thou art most sure that thou art employed about things worth thy pains, it is then that it cheats thee most. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 6.
Image: Detail of a Tapestry showing Constantine Slaying the Lion designed in 1636 by Petro da Cortona, woven by the Barberini tapestry factory in Rome in the workshop of the Flemish artist Jacomo della Riviera (Flemish) at the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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