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photography by Natalia Drepina

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Coronation of the Virgin, 1311, Duccio di Buoninsegna

Medium: wood,tempera

https://www.wikiart.org/en/duccio/coronation-of-the-virgin-1311

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So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of your life, however short, as your nature demands. Focus on that, and don’t let anything distract you. You’ve wandered all over and finally realized that you never found what you were after: how to live. Not in syllogisms, not in money, or fame, or self-indulgence. Nowhere.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (8.1)

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imma do a proper painting eventually but i got really excited I'm sorry zsnnsns

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“Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.” -Friederick Nietzsche

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Excellence withers without an adversary: the time for us to see how great it is, how much its force, is when it displays its power through endurance. I assure you, good men should do the same: they should not be afraid to face hardships and difficulties, or complain of fate; whatever happens, good men should take it in good part, and turn it into a good end; it is not what you endure that matters, but how you endure it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, De Providentia (On Providence)

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Alixe Lay

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Jane Packer Flowers

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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” - Abraham Lincoln

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Scotland - by Hamish Morrison

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Eilean Donan Castle, Scotland - by Graham Hill

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Gwrych Castle