Public Safety more important than reputation

I should be ashamed if I showed that I am more concerned about my own reputation than about the public safety. Isocrates. On The Peace. Speech 8. Section 39.

Image: Page from the The Vienna Dioscurides an early 6th-century Byzantine Greek illuminated manuscript of De Materia Medica by Dioscorides in uncial script depicting healers including Galen (top center). Thought to have been created about 515 CE in Constantinople for Princess Anicia Juliana, the daughter of Anicius Olybrius, one of the last of the Western Roman Emperors, the text was eventually used as a textbook in the imperial hospital of Constantinople. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons