“We have also said that courtesy of speech has great effect in winning favor. But we
want it to be sincere and sensible, without flattery, lest flattery should disgrace the simplicity and purity of our address. We ought to be a pattern to others not only in act but also in word, in purity, and in faith. What we wish to be thought, such let us be…”
(St Ambrose ‘On the Duties of the Clergy’)