Honour is to you and me as strong an obligation, as necessity to others. - Pliny the Younger

Such is the disposition of mankind, if they cannot blast an action, they will censure the parade of it; and whether you do what does not deserve to be taken notice of, or take notice yourself of what does, either way you incur reproach.

Habet has vices conditio mortalium, ut adversa ex secundis, ex adversis secunda nascantur.

Parvolum differt, patiaris adversa an exspectes; nisi quod tamen est dolendi modus, non est timendi. Doleas enim quantum scias accidisse, timeas quantum possit accidere.