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CONQUER YOURSELF. original: "Vince te ipsum." This Latin motto reflects the Renaissance humanist ideal of self-mastery and Stoic discipline, suggesting that the greatest victory is over one's own impulses.

THE PORTRAIT OF JOHANN WEYER IN THE

60TH YEAR OF HIS AGE. THE YEAR OF SALVATION 1576. original: "Effigies Ioannis Wieri Anno Aetatis LX. Salutis M.D.LXXVI." The date 1576 refers to when the portrait was made, one year prior to the publication of this specific edition. Weyer is depicted as a dignified scholar-physician at the height of his career.