It is a disgrace to pride yourselves on your ancestors' treatment of the needy while rejecting those who come to you in need

It is disgraceful that you should pride yourselves on the glorious deeds of your ancestors and then be found acting concerning your suppliants in a manner the very opposite of theirs. Isocrates. Plataicus. Speech 14. Section 53.

In other words, it is a disgrace to pride yourselves on your ancestors' treatment of the needy while rejecting those who come to you in need.

Image: Aeneas tells Dido the misfortunes of the Trojan city by Pierre-Narcisse Guerin (1774-1833). (PD)