For great is the power of arguing and the faculty of persuasion, and particularly if it should be much exercised, and also receive additional ornament from language. But, every faculty acquired by the uninstructed and weak brings with it the danger of these persons being elated and inflated by it. Does he not trample on all such reasons, and strut before us elated and inflated, not enduring that any man should reprove him and remind him of what he has neglected and to what he has turned aside? Epictetus. The Discourses. Book 1. Chapter 8.
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| Marble bust of a young man Roman Antonine Period 161-180 CE produced in Athens and photographed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. |
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