Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny. — Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon Copy Share Image
Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms. — Diane de Poitiers Copy Share Image
I never think it necessary to repeat calumnies; they are sparks, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of… — Herman Boerhaave Copy Share Image
His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“Majority of people prefer a good name to a bad name, but to me, anyone can call me anything, as long as… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it. — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true,… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“I observe that many abusive netizens and insidious individuals kidnap the truth. Their hatred and calumny spread, feeding disinformations like daily toxic… — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
If our credit be so well built, so firm, that it is not easy to be shaken by calumny or insinuation, envy… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share Image
He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Why croak with dishonesty when your target subject discovers, listens, and witnesses beyond the veil of your duplicity? Your proliferation of misinformation,… — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
“People spread gossips, calumny, and false accusations to destroy their subject victim's integrity. Question the motive of people who erroneously, offensively, defensively,… — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
Pessimism like calumny is easy to do, and attracts immediate attention. The gossiper and the writer may find this out soon enough,… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
“Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the… — Jacques Charles Copy Share Image
The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“He made a pit and digged it. He was cunning in his plans and industrious in his labors. He stooped to the… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Saint John of the Ladder explains it thus: "The devil tempts us to commit sin; and when he does not succeed, he… — Fr. Belet Copy Share Image
The generation that followed did not have the same concerns; none of its members attempted to follow the example of the past… — Cheikh Anta Diop Copy Share Image
“No innocence can shield a man from the calumnies of the wicked. [...] As a shadow follows its substance, so envy pursues… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
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