I could wish that this prating might cease. For I note that the bad repute which results therefrom does not affect the offenders only, but that all the rest of us who are in the same profession share in the opprobium. Isocrates. Against the Sophists. Speech 13. Section 11.
Image: St. Ambrose barring the emperor Theodosius I from Milan Cathedral by Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) (PD)
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