31.  Some are benefited by praise, others by blame, both being applied in season; while if out of season, or unreasonable, they are injurious; some are set right by encouragement, others by rebuke; some, when taken to task in public, others, when privately corrected.  For some are wont to despise private admonitions, but are recalled to their senses by the condemnation of a number of people, while others, who would grow reckless under reproof openly given, accept rebuke because it is in secret, and yield obedience in return for sympathy.

ΛΑʹ. Τοὺς μὲν ἔπαινος ὤνησε, τοὺς δὲ ψόγος, ἀμφότερα μετὰ τοῦ καιροῦ: ἢ τοὐναντίον ἔβλαψεν ἔξω τοῦ καιροῦ καὶ τοῦ λόγου. Τοὺς μὲν παράκλησις κατορθοῖ, τοὺς δὲ ἐπιτίμησις: καὶ αὕτη, τοὺς μὲν ἐν τῷ κοινῷ διελεγχομένους, τοὺς δὲ κρύβδην νουθετουμένους. Φιλοῦσι γὰρ οἱ μὲν καταφρονεῖν τῶν ἰδίᾳ νουθετημάτων, πλήθους καταγνώσει σωφρονιζόμενοι: οἱ δὲ πρὸς τὴν ἐλευθερίαν τῶν ἐλέγχων ἀναισχυντεῖν, τῷ τῆς ἐπιτιμήσεως μυστηρίῳ παιδαγωγούμενοι, καὶ ἀντιδιδόντες τῆς συμπαθείας τὴν εὐπείθειαν.