Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to those who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy present thoughts, that nothing shall steal into them without being well examined. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 7.
Image: The Roman emperor Maxentius as Pontifex Maximus, 307-312 CE at the Ostia Archaeological Museum. Image courtesy of Ilya Shurygin.
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