31. Some are benefited by praise, others by blame,
both being applied in season; while if out of season, or unreasonable,
they are injurious; some are set right by encouragement, others by
rebuke; some, when taken to task in public, others, when privately
corrected. For some are wont to despise private admonitions, but
are recalled to their senses by the condemnation of a number of people,
while others, who would grow reckless under reproof openly given,
accept rebuke because it is in secret, and yield obedience in return
for sympathy.