Letters 87.8

What good is there in mules caparisoned in uniform livery? Or in decorated chariots and

Steeds decked with purple and with tapestry, With golden harness hanging from their necks, Champing their yellow bits, all clothed in gold?

Neither master nor mule is improved by such trappings.

Seneca, Letters to Lucilius 87.8, translated by Richard Mott Gummere