If any man should conceive certain things as being really good, such as prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude, he would not, after having first conceived these, endure to listen to anything which should not be in harmony with what is really good. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 5.
Image: Prudentia, with her attributes of mirror and snake, detail from the 1514 monument of King Louis XII in St Denis, Paris courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor P.poschadel.
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