Jean Delville, The God-Man (1903)

Jean Delville, The Death of Orpheus (1893)

Jean Delville, Prometheus (1907)

Jean Delville, The School of Plato (1898)

Fortune makes many loans, but gives no presents. —Publilius Syrus

Jean Delville, Satan's Treasures (1895)

Jean Delville, The Love of Souls (1900)

Jean Delville, The Oblivion of Passions (1913)

Jean Delville, The Angel of Splendor (1894)

Whether memoirs are written by masters of servants, or by servants of masters, the processes always meet. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe IMAGE: Nicolaes Maes, The Idle Servant (1655)

Γυναικὸς ἄρχε Lead your wife —Delphic Maxims 95 IMAGE: Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait (1434)

Shigeru Aoki, Destiny (1904)

Shigeru Aoki, Let There Be Light (1906)

Shigeru Aoki, Myth (1906)

Shigeru Aoki, Pray at Dawn (c. 1907)

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Nicolas Beatrizet, The Triumph of Marcus Aurelius (1550)

Him I call indeed a Brahmana who, after leaving all bondage to men, has risen above all bondage to the gods, and is free from all and every bondage. —Dhammapada 417 IMAGE: Shigeru Aoki, Escape from the Land of the Dead (1903)

John William Waterhouse, Miranda (1916)

Leopold Schulz, Gothic Church Ruins on the Mediterranean (1842)

Ligier Richier, Tomb of René of Chalon (1547)

Michiel Sweerts, Self-portrait with a Skull (c. 1660)

When the edifice of our Fortune is but slightly fractured, a chasm opens through the whole. —Publilius Syrus

If a man spreads my failings abroad, he is my master, even though he were my servant. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Υἱοῖς μὴ καταρῶ Do not curse your sons —Delphic Maxims IMAGE: Henry Fuseli, Oedipus Cursing His Son Polynices (1786)