Reprimand and rebuke should be accepted as healing remedies for vice and as conductive to good health. From this it is clear that those who pretend to be tolerant because they wish to flatter—those who thus fail to correct sinners —actually cause them to suffer supreme loss and plot the destruction of that life which is their true life.
- Basil the Great
A barbarian people cannot understand the basic concept of the higher culture
February 13, 2012,