To the jaundiced honey tastes bitter, and to those bitten by mad dogs water causes fear, and to little children the ball is a fine thing. Why then am I angry? Dost thou think that a false opinion has less power than the bile in the jaundiced or the poison in him who is bitten by a mad dog? Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 6.
Image: Closeup of a hound attacking a boar from the peristyle garden of the House of the Citharist in Pompeii, 1st century CE, that I photographed at Pompeii: The Exhibit at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland, Oregon.
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