[91]
The greater our prosperity, moreover, the more
should we seek the counsel of friends, and the
greater the heed that should be given to their
advice. Under such circumstances also we must
beware of lending an ear to sycophants or allowing
them to impose upon us with their flattery. For
it is easy in this way to deceive ourselves, since
we thus come to think ourselves duly entitled to
praise; and to this frame of mind a thousand delusions [p. 95] may be traced, when men are puffed up with
conceit and expose themselves to ignominy and
ridicule by committing the most egregious blunders.
So much for this subject.
M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. With An English Translation. Walter Miller. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1913.
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