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It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
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It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
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But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that…
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Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered,…
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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'
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If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat.…
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Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by…
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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing…
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We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy,…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
— Jean de La Fontaine
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The words of two thoughtful critics are worth more than those of two hundred mindless flatterers.
— Mak_786
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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will…
— Edmund Burke
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Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
— William Penn
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Cats like men are flatterers.
— Walter Savage Landor
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It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.
— Madame Roland
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