Endure Reproof when thou doest amiss. It’s a Benefit which Princes are deprived of; for they converse familiarly with very few Persons, and those make it their only Business to humour, not to advise them.

Thomas Fuller (1654–1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer

Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 1, # 1184 (1725)
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