An idea from Parallel Lives

Timoleon stood weeping, face covered, while his friends killed his own brother, who had seized power as a tyrant. Then grief broke him, and he kept out of public life for almost 20 years. Fearing every kind of blame “may argue a gentle and open-hearted, but not a heroic temper.”

From Parallel Lives by Plutarch

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