If you use a man whom you are known to have condemned as wicked, it will appear either that your judgments are wrong or that you welcome wicked men

If you use a man whom you are known to have condemned as wicked, it will appear either that your judgments are wrong or that you welcome wicked men. Hyperides. Against Philippides. Speech 2. Section 10.

Image: Coriolanus' wife, mother and son plead with him not to attack Rome in this 1869 painting by Soma Orlai Petrich. (PD)