Exhibiting intelligence and propriety

What the mind shows in the face by maintaining in it the expression of intelligence and propriety, that ought to be required also in the whole body. Marcus Aurelius.  Meditations.  Book 7.


Image: Statue of an Ephebe  (Young Man) 1st century CE Roman copy of 5th century BCE Greek original found in the Augustus Felix surbanus, Pompeii, Italy, bronze with silver cladding and glass paste eyes, that I photographed at Pompeii: The Exhibit at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle Washington.


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