Nur 3 waffen mit pflanzen wären zu wenig. Und da der Platz auf dem Tisch begrenzt ist, malen wir heute im stream noch mit Escallonia die 4te fertig.🧐

Warte was? 🥸

(Vllt schaffen wir noch star rail buns 🥹💞)
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Ornate South Indian dagger, 18th-19th century AD

23-24. Oops...

Playing "slay the princess" gives the feeling that, whatever you choose, you always make the wrong decision.
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Dagger, Mughal Empire, India, 17th or 18th century AD

A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

A candor affected is a dagger concealed.
 
[ἐπιτήδευσις δὲ ἁπλότητος σκάλμη ἐστίν.]

Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 11, ch. 15 (11.15) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2670…

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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 11, ch. 15 (11.15) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)] | WIST Quotations

A candor affected is a dagger concealed. [ἐπιτήδευσις δὲ ἁπλότητος σκάλμη ἐστίν.] Depending on the source material, the weapon reference is either from a native Thracian (foreign) weapon (σκάλμη) -- thus translators who use "stiletto," etc. -- or a proverbial "crooked stick" (σκαμβή), referring to a Greek proverb "You can't…

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