Listen to discern the characters of those who speak and of whom they speak

Listen to what men say about each other and try to discern at the same time the character of those who speak and of those about whom they speak. Isocrates. To Nicocles. Speech 2. Section 28.

Image: Gold Diadem featuring Dionysos conversing with Ariadne from a tomb at Madytos on the European side of the Hellespont Greek 330-300 BCE photographed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art