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Men are apt to consider that those writers who give advice are useful, but they prefer to associate with those who share their own weaknesses. People admit that the Gnomic Poets are the best possible counsellors, but they find more pleasure in their own idle conversation than in reading these poets. They adopt the same attitude towards the moralizings of the Tragic poets—and prefer comedy.
Isocrates Cyprian Orations. Edward S. Forster.
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