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Moreover, it is a feeling not suitable to every age, but only to

youth: we do think that the young should be Shamefaced, because

since they live at the beck and call of passion they do much that

is wrong and Shame acts on them as a check. In fact, we praise

such young men as are Shamefaced, but no one would ever praise an

old man for being given to it, inasmuch as we hold that he ought

not to do things which cause Shame; for Shame, since it arises at

low bad actions, does not at all belong to the good man, because

such ought not to be done at all: nor does it make any difference

to allege that some things are disgraceful really, others only

because they are thought so; for neither should be done, so that

a man ought not to be in the position of feeling Shame. In truth,

to be such a man as to do anything disgraceful is the part of a

faulty character.