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It is in the next place very improper for a man
immediately to retort or recriminate upon his monitor;
for this is the way to occasion heats and animosities
betwixt them, and will speak him rather impatient of
any reproof at all than desirous to recompensate the
kindness of one with another. And therefore it is better
to take his chiding patiently for the present; and if he
chance afterwards to commit a fault worth your remarking upon, you have then an opportunity of repaying him
in his own coin. For being reminded, without the least
intimation of a former pique or dissatisfaction, that he himself did not use to overlook the slips of his friend, he
will receive the remonstrance favorably at your hands, as
being the return of kindness rather than of anger and
resentment.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 2.
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