It is royal to do good and be abused. — Meditations, Book VII

My Take – If I get a hard time over doing the right thing, then I don’t listen to the criticism.  Conversely, when I am promised reward for doing wrong, I try to decline.  Recently, there was a news report about a firefighter who took a little heat because he took off his oxygen mask and gave it to a woman he was pulling out of a burning house.  Did he do right or wrong?  To him, he did right, because to him his own safety was subordinate to the life of the person he was helping.  Now, I’m not a firefighter or anything like that, but I fully invite criticism of my correct steps along with my incorrect ones.  If I do get in trouble for doing the right thing, it says more about the person doing the criticizing than it does about me.