Tao Te Ching

“Cicero’s love of mockery often ran him into scurrility; and in his love of laughing away serious arguments in judicial cases by jests and facetious remarks , with a view to the advantage of his clients, he paid too little regard to what was decent… his immeasurable boasting of himself argues him guilty of an uncontrollable appetite for distinction”

— Plutarch 46 – 120 CE
(Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus)
from Parallel Lives