Show good humor and not a proud air. Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 7.
Front side of a Roman sarcophagus: wedding of Dionysos and Ariadne in Naxos. The couple is in a chariot drawn by musician centaurs, little Eros, satyrs and menads, old Silenus, 2 satyrs punishing Pan. 150–160 CE, now in the collections of the Glyptothek in Munich, Germany. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Bibi Saint-Pol. (digitally enhanced)
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