Dont take your disappointment out on the messenger

If anything goes wrong, you often vent your disappointment, not on the responsible agents, but on those who happen to have addressed you last.  Demosthenes.  Olynthiac 1.  Section 16.

Closeup of Hermes Roman copy of 4th century BCE original by Lisippos from Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli at the Capitoline Museum in Rome

Closeup of Logios Hermes at the Palazzo Altemps in Rome, Italy 1st century BCE - early 2nd century CE after 5th century BCE Greek original at the Palazzo Altemps in Rome

Hermes in the Archaistic style Roman Augustan or Julio-Claudian 27 BCE-68 CE Marble at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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