Themistocles

From Plutarch: "...on one occasion, when Themistocles was serving as general, Simonides of Ceos asked him to stretch a point in his favor and Themistocles told him: 'You would be a poor poet if you sang out of tune, and I should be a poor magistrate if I did people favours contrary to the law.' Another time he made fun of Simonides by pointing out that it was nonsense for him to attack the Corinthians because they lived in a great and handsome city, while at the same time he had portraits made of a face as ugly as his own." Ah, those Greeks!