Est enim pudentis animi et verecundi, ut mea opinio fert, vel falsas vituperationes gravari, cum etiam hi, qui sibi delicti alicuius conscii sunt, tamen, cum male audiunt, impendio commoveantur et obirascantur, quamquam, exinde ut male facere coeperunt, consueverint male audire, quod, si a ceteris silentium est, tamen ipsi sibimet conscii sunt posse se merito increpari.
Even those who have some misdeed on their conscience nonetheless become very irritated and angry when they hear evil report of themselves, despite having got used to evil report from the moment they began to do evil. Even if they hear nothing said by others, still they know within themselves that they are rightly liable to reproach. By contrast, every upright and innocent person has ears that are sensitive and unused to hearing evil.
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