• People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things.

    Marcus Aurelius: People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things.
    Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1701). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus: His Conversation with Himself”, p.211