Aristides the Just

"The story goes that one time when the Athenians were voting on whom to ostracise, to send into exile for ten years, by writing names on potsherds (ostraka in Greek), an illiterate farmer who did not know Aristides asked him to write a name down for him on his piece of pottery. Aristides asked him what name to write, and the farmer replied 'Aristides'. Aristides dutifully wrote his own name, and then asked the farmer what harm Aristides had ever done him. "None at all," came the reply, 'but I'm sick and tired of hearing him being called "the Just" all the time.'" From Bingley's Aristides.