To her, your greatness is not determined by the ambition of your ego, or your conquests, or dominions, or your mastery of power over people, or things.

For she, more than any, knows that what you hold in the highest regard today, will all too soon seem childish and base, when brought before the light of tomorrow’s new sun.

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Marble portrait head of Alexander the Great. 
300 BC – 150 BC.
Excavated in Alexandria

The National Gallery, London, U.K. ~ 11 March 2020.