The fate of those who benefit bad men

If you benefit bad men, you will have the same reward as those who feed stray dogs. For these snarl alike at those who give them food and at the passing stranger. Just so base men wrong alike those who help and those who harm them. Isocrates. To Demonicus. Chapter 1. Section 29.


Bronze dog attacking a boar from the peristyle garden of the House of the Citharist Pompeii 1st century CE

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