Agapetus Quotes
You should instruct men to hold fast the cause of justice, and should punish the howling of those who rage against that cause.
Agapetus, *, Deacon of Santa Sophia Church, Constantenople, Advice to the Emperor Justinian ~530
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See François de La Rochefoucauld for a later version of this sentiment. Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Agapetus was a deacon of the church of Hagia Sophia at Constantinople (about 500). He was a reputed tutor of Justinian, and author of a series of exhortations in seventy-two short chapters addressed around 527 to Justinian (Patrologia Graecae, LXXXVI, 1153–86).