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| Chapter XXIII. The good faith of those who are easily bought over with money or flattery is a frail thing to trust to.
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Chapter XXIII.
The good faith of those who are easily bought over with
money or flattery is a frail thing to trust to.
117. Who would
suppose that those who are bought over to obedience by money,549
| 549 Cic. de
Off. II. 6, § 21. | or those who are allured by adulation,
would ever be faithful to them? For the former are ever ready to
sell themselves, whilst the latter cannot put up with a hard
rule. They are easily won with a little adulation, but if one
reproves them by a word, they murmur against it, they give one up, they
go away with hostile feelings, they forsake one in anger. They
prefer to rule rather than to obey. They think that those whom
they ought to have placed over them ought to be subject to themselves,
as though indebted to them by their kindness.
118. What man is there that thinks those will be
faithful to himself, whom he believes he will have to bind to himself
by money or flattery? For he who takes thy money supposes that he
is cheaply held, and looked down upon, unless the money is paid again
and again. So he frequently expects his price; whilst the other,
who is met with prayer and flattery, is always wanting to be
asked. E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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