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Ninfeo imperiale di Punta Epitaffio (I sec.), Parco Archeologico sommerso di Baia, Bacoli, Napoli.

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The Piscina Mirabilis, built under Augustus (27 BC - 14 AD). It's the biggest known cistern built by ancient Romans (15 metres high, 70 metres long and 25 metres wide), entirely dug out of the tuff hill.

Bacoli, Italy.

© Roberto Conte (2021)

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From Seneca’s Moral Letters to Lucilius

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“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

— Seneca

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"Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk."

—Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

— Seneca

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“If an action or utterance is appropriate, then it’s appropriate for you. Don’t be put off by other people’s comments and criticism. If it’s right to say or do it, then it’s the right thing for you to do or say.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (5.3)

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“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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Called the Patrician Torlonia, is a marble bust, said to portray Marcus Porcius Cato Censorius. It is a copy of a Tiberian era bust (1st century AD), itself thought to be a copy of an original dating from around 80 - 70 BC

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