Sunday, April 09, 2006

More Catonian Wisdom

Something to remember when people of low character and bitter dispositions verbally attack you(an excerpt from Plutarch's Lives):

"When he himself (Cato the Elder) was attacked by a man who led an infamous and dissolute life, he retorted: 'We can never fight on equal terms: you are so hardened to abuse that you can return it just as easily as you suffer it, whereas for me it is as unusual to hear as it is unpleasant to utter'."

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