‘So, you’re giving me advice are you? Have you already given yourself advice, then? Have you already put yourself straight? Is that how you come to have time for reforming other people?’

No — I am not as shameless as to set about treating other people when I am sick myself. I’m talking to you as if I was laying the same hospital ward, about the illness we are both suffering from and passing on some remedies.

— Seneca, The Younger