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In short, he thought a good citizen should not even allow himself to be praised, unless such praise was beneficial to the commonwealth.
And yet of all men he has heaped most praises upon himself. He tells us that men of self-indulgent lives, when rebuked for it, used to say:
‘We ought not to be blamed; we are no Catos.’
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. 2.
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