Despise Quote by Aristotle Download Open image “People generally despise where they flatter” — Aristotle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Despise Flattery People
Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When people flatter you constantly it is very tempting to think you deserve it. — Ruth Reichl Copy Share Image
If someone tries to flatter me too much I think they are full of shit! Then I have a hard time believing anything they… — Jhiess Krieg Copy Share Image
Abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them. If you admit as friends men who seek your… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which… — Moliere Copy Share Image
I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted,… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life,… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I agree that biphobia is real, but I think it's absolutely worth considering that someone who "despises" having sex with her husband - and… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I despise a person of little mind - one might as well not have any. — Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins Copy Share Image
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It was beautiful and rare, and you have every right to despise me." She stood pressed to the wall, not moving. "When you came… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
