For to me that which presents itself is always a material for virtue, both rational and political, and in a word, for the exercise of art. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 7.
Image: The Ludovisi Ares, an Antonine period sculpture of Mars, 2nd century CE copy of a late 4th century BCE Greek original by either Scopas or Lysippus, that I photographed at the Palazzo Altemps in Rome, Italy in 2009.
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