An idea from Parallel Lives

Coriolanus was too proud to ask the people for anything, yet he raged when they didn’t reward him. “He who least likes courting favor, ought also least to think of resenting neglect.” In exile he led an enemy army against Rome, and only his kneeling mother turned him back.

From Parallel Lives by Plutarch

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