Now you are full, now you are rich, you have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Arguments like these, which appeal to our sense of shame, have two advantages. On the one hand, they cut deeper than open invective would ever do. On the other hand, they cause the person reprimanded to bear that deeper wound with greater patience.
