...if you do not engage in the same acts as others with a view to gaining such honors, you cannot expect the same results. A person who will not stoop to flattery does not get to have the flatterer's advantages...refuse to praise someone and you cannot expect the same compensation as a flatterer. It would be unfair and greedy on your part, then, to decline to pay the price that these privileges entail and hope to get them for free.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
A person who will not stoop to flattery...
Epictetus, Enchiridion, Chapter 25:
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