
“From Antisthenes: It is royal to do good and be abused.”
VII, 36
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
§ 3; quoted also by Marcus Aurelius, vii. 36
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
ἀκούσας ποτὲ ὅτι Πλάτων αὐτὸν κακῶς λέγει, “βασιλικόν,” ἔφη, “καλῶς ποιοῦντα κακῶς ἀκούειν.”
“From Antisthenes: It is royal to do good and be abused.”
VII, 36
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
“For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts.”
Book III, Ch. 13. Of Experience
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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“Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VI, Line 399.
“An ill wind that blows no man to good.”
Part II, chapter 9.
Proverbs (1546)