Wipe out thy imaginations by often saying to thyself: now it is in my power to let no badness be in this soul, nor desire nor any perturbation at all, but looking at all things I see what is their nature, and I use each according to its value. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 8.
Image: Detail from A Pyrrhic Dance by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1869, now in the collections of the Guildhall Art Gallery courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Shakko. (Resolution increased with AI software)
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