It is instinctive with most persons when admonished, not to look to the benefits they receive but, on the contrary, to listen to what is said with the greater displeasure in proportion to the rigor with which their critic passes their faults in review. Isocrates. Busiris. Speech 11. Section 3.
Image: The Emperor Commodus Leaving the Arena at the Head of the Gladiators by American muralist Edwin Howland Blashfield (1848-1936) courtesy of the Hermitage Museum and Gardens in Norfolk, Virginia.
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