An idea from Parallel Lives

Cicero kept praising his own speeches, even the ones only spoken and never published. Demosthenes treated his gift as a skill that depended on his listeners. Between the two: “it is an ignoble thing for any man to admire and relish the glory of his own eloquence.”

From Parallel Lives by Plutarch

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